Why? Because I don’t believe they see a viable future for modern applications being written in timely fashion with the likes of RPG. If that is true then what future does the platform have? The PASE environment on IBM i is the remaining hope for the operating system to live in the realm of modernity. Why? Because that’s where modern things are being ported

In my last tip, Decisions, Decisions: Templates Or Snippets?, I discussed taking advantage of both Templates and Snippets. They are used to make life simpler when including small pieces of code that might otherwise be copied from another source member somewhere or, worse yet, rewritten from scratch over and over again.

Once you’ve created a few templates and/or snippets, your fellow developers may ask you to share the wealth. So how do you do that? There are Import and Export options for both Snippets and Templates. They work a bit differently, however.

Remember that Templates are created via the

Restoring Passwords & Private Authorities When Using RSTUSRPRF

Thanks for your nice article on copying user profiles between IBM i systems. I wanted to add that I copied a profile between systems and got this system message.

CPC3713 - &2 &1 restored without password or group linkage

I fixed it by adding the Security Data parameter to the Restore User Profile (RSTUSRPRF) command. I’m running IBM i 6.1.

–Avraham

Here’s what happened with Avraham’s system and how it affects user profile restores.

When moving user profiles between systems, IBM has two scenarios for restoring passwords and private authorities for