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  • Use Special Files to Access the IFS

    May 4, 2005 Hey, Ted

    The code for this article is available for download.

    I was looking for a way to simplify writing data to IFS files, and your article about special files inspired me! I wrote program PTIFSIO, which is to be used as a special file program. This program enables any RPG program to read from and write to the IFS without APIs. I have also attached a program which writes to an IFS file and one which reads from the IFS file. The examples are perhaps trivial, but they show how to use the special file support.

    I am grateful to

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  • Take Two: Where Did I Come From?

    May 4, 2005 Hey, Ted

    The “Where Did I Come From?” tip is a good article. To expand upon it, we sometimes have cases where a job was submitted to job queue A and then moved to job queue B. The QUSRJOBI API will then return job queue B. The joblog will just show CPC1129, “Job number/user/jobname changed by userprofile”. I don’t know of any way to retrieve the value of job queue A from within the active program, but there are a couple of ways of tracking its true origins.

    1. This is what we use. Turn on auditing for the *JOBQ object, like

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  • Admin Alert: Configuring i5/OS and a Windows Network Server for SSO

    May 4, 2005 Joe Hertvik

    Last week, I introduced the concepts and pre-configuration tasks for setting up IBM‘s Single Sign-On (SSO) technology, which allows network users to access a Kerberos server to automatically authenticate and authorize themselves to use i5/OS applications without entering an OS/400 user profile and password. This week, let’s look at some of the configuration tasks for setting up your i5/iSeries partitions and Windows network for SSO.

    Please note that this is the second installment of a group of articles on configuring SSO for i5/OS. These articles cover the following information:

    • Requirements and pre-configuration tasks for enabling SSO on your iSeries
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