Today’s tip is not rocket science, but as I have said before, rocket science won’t help me keep the factory running. Today I share with you a utility that I use constantly, day-in and day-out. Maybe some of you will find it handy as well.

The utility of the day is a command I wrote years ago to help me with testing. As you well know, when you’re testing a program, you often have to look at database files to make sure they were modified correctly. The Display Physical File Member (DSPFFM) command is helpful sometimes, but it suffers

It was a dark night on a network that knew how to keep its secrets. All my clusters were up, and you’d think I’d be happy doing nothing but waltzing through page after page of discount electronics auctions. But I wasn’t happy. I was being outbid on an older MP3 player by BlondScream544, and I knew, somehow, that I’d lose the machine, and it would live out the rest of its miserable, electronic life, pumping out the sounds of junk boy-bands known only to teen-aged girls, and those who wished they still were.

I was considering raising the bid when

Last week the number of joblogs in our QEZJOBLOG output queue increased by thousands of spooled files. Auxiliary storage pool storage usage also increased from 74 percent to 96 percent. Even IBM can’t tell me what’s wrong. The only clues I have are that I keep getting a QSYSOPR CPF22E3 message that reads ‘User profile EXPLOIT is disabled’ and there are lots of QRWTSRVR joblogs in QEZJOBLOG. Do you have any idea what’s happening?

–Laurent

I don’t have a clear answer for what’s going on but I do have a few suspicions. Here’s what I think could be happening based