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I’m happy to present a utility I wrote that has proved to be useful to my employer. It’s called ARCHIVE, and it provides an easy way to make a backup copy of a physical file member, just in case something goes wrong during a job.

Before I present the ARCHIVE utility, let me explain why I wrote it. In a perfect world, all database files would be journaled and all database-processing programs would run under commitment control. If anything were to be found amiss–which would never happen in

While I have over 26 years of development experience, I never had the opportunity to deploy an application on the iSeries until recently. So, right off the bat, let’s be clear: I am not a Four Hundred Guru! Initially, the iSeries looked very different from the systems I’ve worked on in the past. However, as I learned, it can also look familiar.

The purpose of the application was to read and parse XML files provided by a business partner and to store their contents in an iSeries database. The client’s developers then had access to the data they needed

In recent columns, I discussed the ins and outs of moving entire libraries between i5/OS partitions when you are installing software or you are migrating libraries in advance of a corresponding partition migration or a hardware change. This week, I am setting my sights on smaller game as I detail the ups and downs of moving a system printer device or remote output queue between partitions.

The most common reason for moving printer objects to a secondary system is to prepare a new partition that will replace an existing partition and all of its functionality. You may also need to