I have an IFS file whose lines are terminated with a carriage-return and line-feed combination. I need them to have a line-feed character only. Is there a quick way to strip out those carriage-return characters?

–Bob

Here’s an easy way that has worked for me.

First, make a backup copy of the file, in case something goes wrong. Now, use the Edit File (EDTF) command from a CL command line to open the file.

EDTF STMF('somefile.txt')

Press F15 to display the EDTF options screen. Key 5 in the Selection blank (the first entry field on the display). Tab to the

Did you catch the tip A Super-Easy Way to Copy a Spooled File from One Machine to Another that appeared in last week’s issue of Four Hundred Guru? Well, gradford did, and he (she?) contributed another easy method to move spool files from one AS/400 (iSeries, i5) system to another. Here it is:

We have a lot of remote AS/400s. To handle the printing issue, we create remote output queues, each one of which points to an out queue on another AS/400. Any spool file that goes into the remote out queue will automatically be sent to the out

Authority assignment problems can occur when users create application objects. For some software packages, objects must be owned by a specific user. For other objects, related user group profiles must possess certain object authorities. The result is that administrators sometimes have to tweak object authority after an object is created. Fortunately, i5/OS and OS/400 have a fairly easy way to automatically assign object ownership and authorities to user groups when a user creates an object.

The automatic group ownership and authority features I’ll discuss here were tested in OS/400 V5R3, but they are available in earlier V5 versions, the current