I’m happy to say that I’m hearing from more and more people who are beginning to finally break away from SEU to use Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) in Rational Developer for Power Systems (RDP). Perhaps the fact that IBM finally stopped updating SEU for new language features as of V7.1 has caused more shops to consider the move.

I heard from one newbie RSE user the other day with fairly common issue; he wanted to know how to deal with library lists in the RSE environment? In his case, he has a few different library lists due to various packages

Extending IBM i by writing one’s own commands is empowering and gratifying, but a command without help text is like scrambled eggs without salsa. Fortunately, generating help text for a command is easy, thanks to a technique I learned from a very talented programmer named Chris Wages. Let me show you how it’s done.

First, you must have a command, of course. Here’s the source code for command DOIT.

CMD        PROMPT('Do it')

PARM       KWD(HOW) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) RSTD(*YES) +
             DFT(*WELL) +
             VALUES(*WELL *BETTER *BEST) +
             EXPR(*YES) +
             PROMPT('How should I do it?')

PARM       KWD(WHEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) RSTD(*YES) +
             DFT(*MORNING) +
             VALUES(*MORNING 

My programmers keep setting up automatic FTP downloads from the network using the wrong user profile. For security reasons, they are only supposed to use a special FTP download user profile, but they keep using their own profiles and I have no way to stop this. How can I lock down FTP so that they can only use an authorized user FTP profile for their client FTP sessions?

–Bob

You can easily use an FTP exit point to prevent unauthorized users from starting an FTP session on your IBM i partition.

An IBM i exit point is a specific point