A Different Perspective on WDSc

November 3, 2004 Bruce Guetzkow

If you’re using WebSphere Development Studio client to maintain iSeries source, you’re familiar with the Remote Systems Explorer perspective and its associated views. RSE lets you create filters to manage access to source members and other iSeries objects. If you work on more than one user request at a time, however, it may be difficult to keep track of which source members belong with a certain request. The iSeries Projects perspective helps by letting you organize source into projects and to develop even if you are not connected to your host iSeries.

SETTING THE STAGE

The iSeries Projects perspective allows

Qshell Logout Script

November 3, 2004 Hey, Ted

I know about the special scripts that run automatically when I begin a Qshell session. Is there a way to make Qshell run a script when I end a session?

–Matt

Qshell does not support an automatic logout script, but you can tell Qshell to run a script when the session ends by trapping the EXIT pseudo signal.

Suppose you want to keep a log of your Qshell sessions. You might create an IFS file to contain the log information. The following command creates a file called qsh session history.

touch 'qsh session history'

Using the text editor of

Admin Alert: Safely Deleting a User Profile

November 3, 2004 Joe Hertvik

As employees leave a company, many administrators disable their OS/400 user profiles, rather than deleting them, because the profiles may own critical system objects, may be used in regularly scheduled batch jobs, or may be group profiles that others depend on. Disabling terminated profiles is common practice because there isn’t an easy way to discover which objects a profile affects, so administrators generally believe it’s better to play it safe and keep an old user profile.

To help remedy this situation, I offer the following checklist for deleting terminated user profiles instead of disabling them. By following this checklist, you