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Volume 5, Number 15 -- April 13, 2005

 
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Special Files Can Do It All
by Ted Holt

A special file is a file that is a front-end for a program. That is, when an I/O request occurs to the special file, the system calls a program. The ILE RPG Programmer's Guide refers to this called program as the "user-written routine." Special files provide a way for RPG to do anything that a program can do. READ MORE >

 

Not Wanted: That Kind of Native RPG Browser Support

Not everyone was enthusiastic about Brian Kelly's recent article asking for IBM to come up with a more native and natural way to program iSeries applications with a Web front end. Specifically, Jon Paris, of Partner/400, and Bob Cancilla, of Ignite/400, both sent in letters voicing strong disagreement with what Kelly was suggesting in his article. READ MORE >

 

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   Admin Alert: The Joys and Pains of Automatically Disabling User Profiles
   by Joe Hertvik

In previous Admin Alerts, I discussed two ways to activate and deactivate individual user profiles by using OS/400 Activation Entries and OS/400 Expiration Schedule Entries. While these features disable and enable individual profiles, they do nothing to automatically disable any OS/400 user profiles that have been inactive for a set number of days. That's where OS/400's Analyze Profile Activity command (ANZPRFACT) comes in, a valuable technique that contains one nasty pitfall. READ MORE >




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Technical Editors: Howard Arner, Joe Hertvik, Ted Holt,
Shannon O'Donnell, Kevin Vandever
Contributing Technical Editors: Joel Cochran, Wayne O. Evans, Raymond Everhart,
Bruce Guetzkow, Marc Logemann, David Morris
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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T.L. Ashford
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BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Special Files Can Do It All

Not Wanted: That Kind of Native RPG Browser Support

Admin Alert: The Joys and Pains of Automatically Disabling User Profiles


OS/400 PTF Guide
April 9

April 2

March 27

March 19

March 12

The Four Hundred
IBM Gives the iSeries Channel Incentives to Grow and Behave

The Possibilities of PASE

Vision Solutions Bolsters Network, HA Capabilities

Shaking IT Up: Meet That Date!

Four Hundred Stuff
SecureZIP for iSeries Now Available from PKWARE

Mid-Comp Overhauls Snapshot/400 to Improve Real-Time Monitoring

Datalogics Speeds Document Creation with PDF Library 7.0

Califon Systems Ships Database Analysis Tool

Four Hundred Monitor




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