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  • Who Needs Custom Perspectives In RSE?

    March 12, 2014 Susan Gantner

    Who needs custom perspectives in RSE? Just about everyone. At least everyone could probably benefit from them. As you know if you’ve read my earlier tips, I’m a huge fan of the Remote System Explorer that is part of WDSC, RDi and/or RDP. But I rarely use it as it comes “out of the box” from IBM/Rational. I customize it in many ways, including creating my own custom perspectives.

    I use custom perspectives primarily for two purposes:

    1. To provide a good target for “reset perspective. . . “
    2. To create special-purpose editing environments.

    In this tip, we’ll look at

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  • Quick And Handy RPG Output

    March 12, 2014 Ted Holt

    Are you one of those people who thrive on complexity? Do you love bureaucracy and paperwork? If so, you’re reading the wrong newsletter. I like everything to be as simple as possible. Today I have a simple routine that is a time-saver for me. I hope you find it useful.

    My little routine lets me print anything with minimal effort. I can print character variables, numeric variables, data structures, the results of expressions, and anything else that can be assigned to a character variable. I developed it because I needed a quick way to add output to RPG programs without

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  • What Should I Monitor For On My IBM i Partition?

    March 12, 2014 Hey, Joe

    I want to shore up my IBM i monitoring plan but I need ideas on what to monitor for. I know a problem when it hits me, but I’m not always sure what to look for. What should I be monitoring?

    –Victoria

    IBM i and Power i system monitoring is an important topic because like a shipping manager, your number one priority is to keep the production lines running. You need to find problems both before and after they occur. Here are the general areas I believe every IBM i administrator should be watching on a daily basis. In the

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