February 8, 2012: QSECOFR Security Problems I Have Known

January 11, 2012: Is It a Performance Issue or a Throughput Issue?

December 14, 2011: Hidden Parameters of the Submit Job Command

December 7, 2011: More Information on Semi-Restricted State, Vendor Profiles, and Storage Pools

November 9, 2011: When You Can't Answer Record Lock Errors

November 2, 2011: What To Do with Vendor Profiles During an Audit, PLUS Two Other Great Features

October 19, 2011: Adding Redundancy to Power i SMS Monitoring

October 5, 2011: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors

September 14, 2011: Three Common Problems with CBUs

September 7, 2011: Starting Multiple PC5250 Sessions in a Batch File

August 24, 2011: Two PC5250 Configuration Secrets

August 10, 2011: An Alternate Way to Port Image Catalogs Between Systems: QFileSrv.400

July 27, 2011: A Starter Program to Find Damaged Objects in i OS 6.1.1

July 20, 2011: Porting an Image Catalog Between Power i Boxes using FTP

June 22, 2011: Things to Think About in a Power i Development Environment

June 8, 2011: Things I Learned from My Latest Power i Upgrade

May 25, 2011: Other Options for a Post-Upgrade Backup

May 18, 2011: Running System i Cleanup Manually

May 11, 2011: Critical Information That Every i Administrator Should Have Handy

April 13, 2011: The Four Faces of Software Vendors During a Hardware Upgrade

April 6, 2011: Must Your Rack Be IBM Black?

March 16, 2011: Corralling i/OS Storage Hogs, Part 2

March 2, 2011: Corralling i/OS Storage Hogs, Part 1

February 16, 2011: Six Techniques to Prevent Power i Upgrades from Slowing Down

February 2, 2011: QPWDRULES Rules!!! Opening Up User Password Options with i 6.1

January 12, 2011: Basic i/OS Error Monitoring and Response, Part 2

January 5, 2011: Basic i/OS Error Monitoring and Response, Part 1

December 8, 2010: Printing Multiple PC5250 Screens at the Same Time

December 1, 2010: Prototype Instructions for Running TCP/IP in i5/OS Restricted State

November 10, 2010: Things to Think About When Changing Hardware Maintenance

November 3, 2010: Risk and the Power i Hardware Upgrade

October 13, 2010: Will i5/OS V5R4Mx Support Run Out on April 7, 2015?

October 6, 2010: Getting Started with i/OS Security Auditing, Part 2

September 15, 2010: Getting Started with i/OS Security Auditing, Part 1

September 8, 2010: Placing Additional Restrictions on i/OS Passwords

August 25, 2010: One Year Out--Preparing for Your Next Power IBM i Upgrade

August 11, 2010: Six Things You May Not Know About i/OS Passwords

July 21, 2010: The Poor Manager's 5250 Single Sign-On

July 14, 2010: Keep Your Data Synced Up During an HA Switch Over

June 30, 2010: High Availability Eliminates Disaster Recovery. . . Right?

June 9, 2010: How To Run NetServer from the Green Screen in 10 Minutes

May 19, 2010: CBU Product License Keys Can and Will Suddenly Expire

May 12, 2010: Diary of a Production System Upgrade, Part 2

April 28, 2010: Diary of a Production System Upgrade, Part 1

April 14, 2010: Some Simple Ideas for Getting the Best System i Lease

March 10, 2010: A Skeleton Checklist for Performing Power i Upgrades

March 3, 2010: Preparing Your CBU For a Real Emergency

February 17, 2010: Six Things Power i Administrators Need to Know

February 3, 2010: Did You Lose ECS on February 1?

January 27, 2010: Speeding Up i5/OS Access Path Rebuilds

January 20, 2010: Erasing i5/OS Disk for Fun and Compliance

January 6, 2010: Upgrading a 550 to a 520 with V5R4?

December 9, 2009: The Ins and Outs of IBM Business Partners

December 2, 2009: Creating a High-Priority Batch Subsystem

November 4, 2009: Keeping i5/OS Ethernet Lines Connected

October 14, 2009: Locking Down i5/OS System Security Values

October 7, 2009: The Great CBU Survey and More

September 16, 2009: The Road to Live CBU Fail Over, Part 2

September 2, 2009: The Road to Live CBU Fail Over, Part 1

August 19, 2009: Correcting and Expanding the Program to Change User Passwords on the Fly

August 5, 2009: Changing User Passwords on the Fly

July 22, 2009: Treating IFS Objects Like Stream File Objects

July 8, 2009: Fine Tuning User Access with Application Administration

June 17, 2009: A Simple Save While Active Backup Program

June 3, 2009: Beyond Replication in an i5/OS High-Availability Environment

May 20, 2009: Four Ways to Encrypt i5/OS Backups, Part 2

May 13, 2009: Four Ways To Encrypt i5/OS Backups, Part 1

April 15, 2009: And /QOpenSys and /QOpenSys and /QOpenSys and. . .

April 1, 2009: Change Your Tape Drives, Change Your Tape Management Costs

March 18, 2009: Changing your SMTP Server is Easy-ish

March 11, 2009: Six Ways to Mess Up i5/OS User Profiles Security (And What To Do About It)

March 4, 2009: Things I Learned About IBM Maintenance Contracts

February 25, 2009: Robot/SCHEDULE's DST Work-Around and More

February 18, 2009: Solving i5/OS Inquiry Message Whodunits

February 4, 2009: Time Gobbling Tasks for a System Upgrade

January 28, 2009: Four Things to Beware of During a System Upgrade

January 14, 2009: Looking for i5/OS Trouble, Part II

January 7, 2009: Looking for i5/OS Trouble, Part I

December 17, 2008: Upcoming i5/OS and AnyNet End of Service Dates

December 10, 2008: The Dangers of User Profiles with Privileges

December 3, 2008: Tuning i5/OS Storage Pools for Performance

November 19, 2008: When Batch Meets Interactive

November 12, 2008: Readers Pimp Joe's Font, Win No-Prize

November 5, 2008: Avoiding Restoration Problems with Remote Output Queues

October 15, 2008: Preventing Multiple IPs from Stopping Internet Traffic

October 8, 2008: When System Job Tables Attack, Part III

October 1, 2008: When System Job Tables Attack, Part II

September 24, 2008: When System Job Tables Attack, Part I

September 10, 2008: Getting into a i5/OS Restricted State

August 27, 2008: Giving Auditors What They Want

August 13, 2008: Common Mistakes When Failing Over to a CBU

July 16, 2008: A Client Access Mystery Solved. . . with No-Prizes!!!

June 18, 2008: Redundancy is Good, Redundancy is Good, Re . . .

June 11, 2008: All About the System i Attention Light

June 4, 2008: Quick Audits for i5/OS Backups

May 23, 2008: Monitoring the Monitors

May 14, 2008: Things to Do When Adding Drives to a System

May 7, 2008: How to Recreate/Restore a System Distribution Directory

April 16, 2008: V6R1 Changes for the i5/OS Administrator, Part 2

April 9, 2008: V6R1 Changes for the i5/OS Administrator, Part 1

April 2, 2008: How System i Boxes Impersonate Each Other, Part 2

March 26, 2008: How System i Boxes Impersonate Each Other, Part 1

March 12, 2008: A Much Quicker Way to Move System i Objects Between Partitions

March 5, 2008: When System i Ethernet Cards Stop Broadcasting

February 27, 2008: Five Minutes to Moving System i Objects Between Partitions

Febraury 13, 2008: Printing and Emailing a System i Rack Config

Janaury 23, 2008: Before You Buy That New System i, Part 2

January 16, 2008: Before You Buy That New System i, Part 1

January 9, 2008: Making Educated Guesses on CPU Utilization

December 12, 2007: Getting Started with Trial Capacity on Demand, Part 2

December 5, 2007: Getting Started with Trial Capacity on Demand, Part 1

November 28, 2007: Basic Tools for the System i Admin Tool Chest

November 14, 2007: How Big is My IFS?

November 7, 2007: Five Benefits of a High-Availability System

October 31, 2007: Limiting System i User Sign-ons the Smart Way

October 24, 2007: The System i High Availability Roadmap

October 10, 2007: Remotely Accessing an HMC System Console, Part 2

October 3, 2007: Remotely Accessing an HMC System Console, Part 1

September 26, 2007: What Vendors Want to Know (and How to Get It)

Septmber 19, 2007: When APPN Prevents You from Changing Network Attributes

September 12, 2007: A Primer for Changing Your i5/OS Startup Program

August 29, 2007: Magical & Mysterious iSeries Access CWB Programs

August 8, 2007: Eliminating Easy-to-Guess User Passwords

August 1, 2007: Getting Around System i Default Passwords, Part 2

July 25, 2007: Getting Around System i Default Passwords, Part 2

July 18, 2007: FTPing Save Files from Windows to i5/OS

July 11, 2007: More Info on SAVSYSINF, Green-Screen Printing, Performance PTFs, and Batteries

June 27, 2007: Meditations on Full System Backups

June 13, 2007: Alternative Ways to Print PC5250 Screens

June 6, 2007: Weird i5 User Profile Sign-On Secrets

May 23, 2007: i5 IPL Pre-Planning and Post-Planning Checklists

May 16, 2007: Another Way to Retrieve i5 System Storage Space

May 9, 2007: The i5 Battery Checking Process

May 2, 2007: Dealing with i5 Critical Storage Errors, Part 2

April 25, 2007: Dealing with i5 Critical Storage Errors, Part 1

April 11, 2007: The Process and Pitfalls of Duplicating Libraries

April 4, 2007: Graphically Moving i5/OS Objects with OpsNav

March 28, 2007: Five Things that Kill Backups (and What to Do About Them)

March 14, 2007: The Better Way to Send Break Messages to Active Users in i5/OS

March 7, 2007: Better Subsystem Throughput Via Multiple Job Queues, Part Two

February 28, 2007: Better Subsystem Throughput Via Multiple Job Queues, Part One

February 21, 2007: Automatically Moving Printed Spooled Files Between Output Queues

February 7, 2007: Selectively Sending Break Messages to Active Users

January 24, 2007: Updating Your System i5 for Daylight Saving Time Changes

January 17, 2007: Ending Subsystems Properly

January 10, 2007: Combating Cross-Server Failures for the i5 Manager

December 13, 2006: More Information on Fixed Storage and WRKSYSACT

December 6, 2006: Quick and Dirty Ways to Find Job Gone Wild

November 15, 2006: Three Steps to Mapping iSeries Data to a Windows Network Drive

November 8, 2006: The Rule of Fours for i5 Test Environments

November 1, 2006: Using Remote OUTQs to Cover for Broken Printers

October 25, 2006: The Pitfalls of Duplicating Data to a Test Library

October 11, 2006: The Ins and Outs of Loading Licensed Program Products

October 4, 2006: Changing Physical File Characteristics on the Fly

September 27, 2006: Setting the Record Straight on iSeries Access and ODBC Freeware

September 20, 2006: Dissecting the Unusual QLGPGCMA.LOCALE Error

September 13, 2006: One Common Cure for SQL0901 Package Errors

August 30, 2006: Four iSeries Access Tips for Windows Professionals

August 9, 2006: Running Green-Screen Commands from OpsNav, Part 2

August 2, 2006: Running Green-Screen Commands from OpsNav, Part 1

July 26, 2006: Automatic Ways to Assign Group Authorities to an Object

July 19, 2006: PC5250 Session Files--Where to Find Them, Where to Store Them

July 12, 2006: Moving a Subsystem into its Own Shared Pool

June 28, 2006: Creating More Distinctive PC5250 Window Titles

June 14, 2006: How to Set i5 Library Lists for 5250 and Batch Jobs

June 7, 2006: Preparing Your i5 Shop for a Pandemic

May 24, 2006: Setting Up Unattended i5 Server IPLs

May 10, 2006: The Case of the Mysterious CPI0999 Storage Error

May 3, 2006: Building a Better Experimental Automatic Deletion Technique

April 19, 2006: An Experimental Technique for Automatically Deleting User Profiles

April 12, 2006: Another Way to Move Devices Between Systems

April 5, 2006: Protecting Your System from Critical Storage Errors

March 22, 2006: Moving Printer Devices and Remote Outqs Between Systems

March 15, 2006: Two Tricks for Better Printer Control

March 1, 2006: Moving Libraries Between i5/OS Partitions, Part 2

February 22, 2006: Moving Libraries Between i5/OS Partitions, Part 1

February 8, 2006: Creating an i5/OS User Profile Architecture

February 1, 2006: Six Simple Rules for OS/400 Group Profiles

January 25, 2006: Feedback--Quicker Ways to Change Library Object Ownership

January 11, 2006: Limiting *PUBLIC Access to i5/OS Objects, Part 2

January 4, 2006: Limiting *PUBLIC Access to i5/OS Objects, Part 1

December 14, 2005: The Great i5/OS Job Hunt

December 7, 2005: Backing Up i5/OS Partitions to Disk

November 16, 2005: Darn Good FTP Commands You've Probably Never Heard Of

November 9, 2005: Use Remote Output Queues to Share Printers Between Partitions

November 2, 2005: Hidden Secrets of the i5/OS Save Commands

October 26, 2005: New TCP/IP Functions to Check Out When Upgrading to i5/OS V5

October 19, 2005: How to Change OS/400 Command Default Parameters

October 12, 2005: Reader Feedback on Limiting Users with *ALLOBJ Authority

September 28, 2005: Limiting the Long Reach of OS/400 Security Officers

September 21, 2005: A Checklist for Creating OS/400 User Profiles, Part II

September 14, 2005: A Checklist for Creating OS/400 User Profiles, Part I

August 31, 2005: Changing Your Mind When Loading Group PTFs

August 24, 2005: Common Things to Do When Installing Third Party Products

August 3, 2005: Making OS/400 Automatically FTP to Windows

July 27, 2005: To Each Its Own in Spooled File Management

July 20, 2005: Three Keys to Better ODBC Library List Management

July 13, 2005: Turning Off ODBC Query Timeout Limits

June 29, 2005: Three iSeries Access Data Transfer Download Tricks

June 15, 2005: A Quick Audit of Your IPL Parameters

June 8, 2005: A Better Technique for Detecting Invalid Log-In Attempts

May 25, 2005: Configuring Windows Desktops to Use SSO

May 18, 2005: Configuring an i5/OS-based EIM Table for Single Sign-On

May 4, 2005: Configuring i5/OS and a Windows Network Server for SSO

April 27, 2005: Getting Ready for Single Sign-On

April 13, 2005: The Joys and Pains of Automatically Disabling User Profiles

April 6, 2005: Using OS/400 Prestart Jobs for Repetitious Server Processing

March 16, 2005: Using OS/400 Autostart Jobs for Repetitious Server Processing

March 9, 2005: Creating a Save Changed Objects Backup Tape

March 2, 2005: IBM Has Changed the +/- One Release Rule for V5R1 Upgrades

February 25, 2005: Configuring Output Queues to Print Multi-Copy Spooled Files on Remote Printers

February 16, 2005: Making a Remote Output Queue Look Like a Printer Device

February 2, 2005: Things to Check After Upgrading OS/400 V5R1 to V5R3

January 19, 2005: More on Preparing for OS/400 V5R1 to V5R3 Upgrades

January 5, 2005: Preparing for an OS/400 V5R1 to V5R3 Upgrade

December 8, 2004: Use Fix Central to Order iSeries PTFs on CD-ROM

December 1, 2004: Tips for Dealing with Deleted Records in AS/400 Files

November 17, 2004: More on Safely Deleting User Profiles

November 3, 2004: Safely Deleting a User Profile

October 20, 2004: Cracking the Obscure CWBLM0029 PC5250 Error

October 6, 2004: Make User Profiles Go Cross-Partition with OpsNav

September 15, 2004: Three Ways to Tighten OS/400 Security

September 1, 2004: Finding More Elusive OS/400 Commands

August 18, 2004: Searching for Elusive OS/400 Green-Screen Commands

August 4, 2004: Shutting Down OS/400 User Profiles with Activation Entries

July 21, 2004: Four Cool Things You Can Do with PC5250

July 14, 2004: Decommissioning Group Profiles

June 23, 2004: Changing the Limits on OS/400 Job Spool Files

June 2, 2004: Checking Your iSeries Batteries

May 19, 2004: A Lotus Notes Adjustment for Fighting Spam

May 5, 2004: Hitting the Limits of the QNTC File System

April 21, 2004: When Management Central Server Won't Start

April 7, 2004: The Joys of Creating User Profile Information Files

March 31, 2004: Moving ASCII Data Between IFS and Windows

March 17, 2004: The Absolute Coolness of the QNTC File System

March 3, 2004: Five Quick PC5250 Tricks for Administrators

February 18, 2004: Creating a Private Subsystem

February 4, 2004: Alternate Ways to Ensure a Subsystem Ends

January 14, 2004: Three Common Mistakes in CL Administration

December 15, 2003: Does ENDJOBABN Prevent PTF Applications?

December 8, 2003: Don't Forget Which OS/400 Box You're Attached To

November 17, 2003: When a Job Doesn't End

November 10, 2003: Determining Which OS/400 Files Need Reorganizing, Part 2

October 27, 2003: Determining Which OS/400 Files Need Reorganizing

October 13, 2003: 5 Things to Do Before Adding iSeries Disk Capacity

October 6, 2003: Retrieving System Information to Order Cumulative PTFs

September 29, 2003: Tips on Running RCLSTG

September 22, 2003: The Ins and Outs of iSeries Time Synchronization

September 15, 2003: Automating FTP Transfers Between OS/400 and Windows

September 8, 2003: More About WRKSYSSTS

September 2, 2003: Alternatives to WRKACTJOB

August 25, 2003: Setting Up OS/400 Subsystems to Run Multiple Batch Jobs

August 18, 2003: PC5250 Communication Sign-On Tricks

August 11, 2003: Feedback on ODBC Errors and WebSphere Express Installs

July 28, 2003: Curing the Access-to-ODBC Blues

July 21, 2003: Lessons from My WebSphere Express Installation Diary

July 14, 2003: Making Client Access Print Screens Print Better

July 7, 2003: A Simple Batch FTP Tutorial

June 23, 2003: Automatically Deleting or Disabling OS/400 User Profiles

June 16, 2003: Modifying an OS/400 FTP Server Configuration

June 9, 2003: Five Things to Do While Installing Client Access

June 2, 2003: The Seven Levels of OS/400 Authority Checking

May 27, 2003: Using FTP to Copy DB2 Files Between iSeries Machines

May 19, 2003: A Simple Program for Formatting Multiple Tapes

May 5, 2003: Copying IFS Files from One iSeries to Another

April 28, 2003: Staying Current with iSeries Access and Lotus Domino

April 21, 2003: Don't Forget the IFS When Virus Scanning

April 14, 2003: The OS/400 FTP Subcommand Glossary

April 7, 2003: Password Configuration Tips for OS/400 Admins

March 31, 2003: More on Remote OUTQs and Printer Load Form Messages

March 24, 2003: Remote OUTQs and Auto-Answer Printer Messages

March 17, 2003: How to Auto-Answer Printer Load Form Messages

March 10, 2003: A Virtual Optical Device PTF Install

March 3, 2003: Reader Feedback on Applying Cumulative PTFs

February 24, 2003: A Checklist for Applying Cumulative PTFs

February 17, 2003: A Little Mid-Winter PTF Talk

February 10, 2003: More Info on Default Password, Excel ODBC, Failed Saves

February 3, 2003: An Easy Way to Import OS/400 Data into Excel

January 27, 2003: Getting More Information Out of OS/400 User Profiles

January 20, 2003: How to Change Your OS/400 Startup Program

January 13, 2003: Two OS/400 Performance-Adjustment Settings to Check

January 6, 2003: CL Programming Techniques for Solving Backup Problems

November 11, 2002: Making OS/400 User Profiles a Little More Secure

November 4, 2002: Basic Client Access Express Installation from IFS

October 28, 2002: Deciphering Group PTF CD Labeling

October 21, 2002: Configuring PC5250 for Inactive Job Disconnection

October 14, 2002: Configuring iSeries Partitions the Right Way

October 7, 2002: Readers' Insights on Inactive Jobs and QSTRUPJD Job Logs

September 30, 2002: Dealing with Inactive Jobs

September 23, 2002: Where's My QSTRUP Start-Up Job Log?

September 16, 2002: Readers Check in on PC5250 Color Changes

September 9, 2002: Produce Pleasing PC5250 Pictures for Pupils and Printers

September 3, 2002: Use Graphical Tools to Tighten OS/400 Security

August 26, 2002: Dissecting an Option 21 Save

August 19, 2002: Getting In and Out of iSeries Restricted State

August 12, 2002: Copying IFS Directories Between Two iSeries, Part 2

August 5, 2002: Copying IFS Directories Between Two iSeries, Part 1

July 29, 2002: When Did I Last Use That Save Command?

July 22, 2002: Dealing with Default OS/400 Passwords

July 15, 2002: Changing OS/400 IP Addresses, Part 2

July 8, 2002: Changing OS/400 IP Addresses

June 17, 2002: When the V5R1 Management Central GUI Won't Start

June 10, 2002: Four Steps to Creating a Subsystem

June 3, 2002: Using BRMS for Online Domino Database Backup

May 6, 2002: QNOTES Ownership Improves Domino Performance

April 29, 2002: Bringing V5R1 DST Passwords Under Control

April 22, 2002: Starting DST Without an IPL

April 8, 2002: Resurrecting the QSECOFR Profile in OS/400

April 1, 2002: Creating a Bread Crumb Trail for OS/400 Installs

March 25, 2002: Our PC5250 Mistake, Your Gain with Two Tech Tips

March 18, 2002: Switching Between 80- and 132-Character Mode in Express PC5250

March 11, 2002: V5R1 Adds *AUTOSTART to STRTCPSVR

February 25, 2002: Is OS/400 SNMP Vulnerable to Hack Attack?

February 18, 2002: Don't Use CHKPRDOPT on Domino-LEI Combo

February 11, 2002: IBM to Release New Express Client Service Pack

January 28, 2002: IBM Identifies Killer Domino V5R1 PTF