Find the Length of a Character String in CL, Take Two

December 7, 2005 Hey, Ted

Just yesterday, I was trying to determine the length of the value of a CL variable, so your tip today using the MSGDTA trick was helpful. I was thinking that IBM had added %TRIM and %LEN to the list of CL built-in functions (BIFs) that exist in recent releases, but I guess I was imagining this. Why hasn’t IBM done this, with all the other great enhancements to CL recently? Is there a way to add your own BIFs to CL by creating your own commands?

–Flagler

I have long advocated the creation of commands to extend the CL language,

Installing WebSphere Application Server 6.0

December 7, 2005 Hey, Brian

Earlier this year, I installed WebSphere Application Express Server Version 5.1 on our iSeries 270; the software came with my OS/400 V5R3 upgrade. I used your book, The iSeries Express Web Implementor’s Guide, which I purchased at the IT Jungle Bookstore, to help understand what the WebSphere Express server really was all about. Then, after I thought I understood what I needed to do, I used the normal IBM command RSTLICPGM to install WebSphere Application Express Server Version 5.1, or as you refer to it as WAS 5.1 Express. After running the RSTLICPGM, to make sure it was installed,

Admin Alert: Backing Up i5/OS Partitions to Disk

December 7, 2005 Joe Hertvik

Sometimes it’s neither practical nor possible to save OS/400 data to media on a regular basis. I experienced this recently as I was developing a new partition and all my regular tape drives were allocated to nightly backups. With development happening during the day and no media to back up the system to at night, I had to find another backup solution. The answer I came up with was to back up our data to disk for later transfer to tape or another system.

Backing up data to disk storage before transferring it to tape isn’t necessarily the most elegant