Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

Normally, modesty would forbid me from saying this, but I love Four Hundred Guru. I was looking for a way to create a globally unique identifier (GUID) also known as a universally unique identifier (UUID) so that I could write some DB2 code compatible with SQL Server. Unfortunately DB2 doesn’t have a GUID/UUID function so I had to search the web to find an alternative. What did I stumble upon? A good ol’ FHG article showing how to create a GUID/UUID in RPG that could easily be

Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

The Integrated File System (IFS) is marvelous, and without it this system I love so well would be history. Nevertheless, managing the files in the IFS is challenging. Recently I found myself wishing that I could use SQL to query an IFS directory. Since IBM had not provided me with that interface, I decided to build it myself. Here you are.

I didn’t start from scratch. Thanks to Bob Cozzi and Scott Klement, whose code I’ve appropriated over the years, I’ve written programs that access the IFS. Throwing

I have a few people that no matter what I do, always manage to disable their i5/OS NetServer (NetServer) user profile when they are opening an IBM i file share. Is there anything I can do to automatically re-enable their profiles when this happens?

–Matt

The first thing I’d do is check to see if there’s a reason your users are automatically disabling their NetServer profile when they try to open an IBM i file share as a Windows network drive. The most common situation I’ve found for auto-disabling NetServer profiles is when a user’s Windows network password doesn’t match