Use Special Files to Access the IFS
Hey, Ted:

I was looking for a way to simplify writing data to IFS files, and your article about special files inspired me! I wrote program PTIFSIO, which is to be used as a special file program. This program enables any RPG program to read from and write to the IFS without APIs. I have also attached a program which writes to an IFS file and one which reads from the IFS file. The examples are perhaps trivial, but they show how to use the special file support. READ MORE >

Take Two: Where Did I Come From?
Hey, Ted:

The "Where Did I Come From?" tip is a good article. To expand upon it, we sometimes have cases where a job was submitted to job queue A and then moved to job queue B. The QUSRJOBI API will then return job queue B. The joblog will just show CPC1129, "Job number/user/jobname changed by userprofile". I don't know of any way to retrieve the value of job queue A from within the active program, but there are a couple of ways of tracking its true origins. READ MORE >

   Admin Alert: Configuring i5/OS and a Windows Network Server for SSO
   by Joe Hertvik

Last week, I introduced the concepts and pre-configuration tasks for setting up IBM's Single Sign-On (SSO) technology, which allows network users to access a Kerberos server to automatically authenticate and authorize themselves to use i5/OS applications without entering an OS/400 user profile and password. This week, let's look at some of the configuration tasks for setting up your i5/iSeries partitions and Windows network for SSO. READ MORE >

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