Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

For Part I of this article, click here.

Enabling a Power-Handling Program To Control System Activity During a Power Interruption

Elle,

When the UPSDLYTIM‘s automatic shutdown does not serve your installation needs, it is nice to know that there is a better way–an intelligent power handling program. When the unexpected arrives as it often does unexpectedly, a more controllable and granular approach to a system shutdown can save the day or at least save your system so it will run tomorrow. The power-handling program that IBM

I had a situation where I wanted to change the end-of-line character from linefeed to carriage-return/linefeed to make a JavaScript file on the Integrated File System more readable in Notepad. I stumbled upon EDIT FILE (EDTF), F15, option 5. Then, after a little searching, I found your articles. Talk about reinventing the wheel! I was surprised that changing end-of-line characters was not part of the CHANGE ATTRIBUTE (CHGATR) command (or some other command). Is there any chance you could share a Qshell solution that converts LF to CRLF? I love using Qshell when I can, but

This week, let’s took a look at a few emails that I received concerning some of my recent Admin Alert columns. These emails contain more information on how to retrieve system information for vendors and the relationship between changing your i5/OS system name and iSeries Access for Windows PC5250 connections.

Regarding my article, “What Vendors Want to Know (and How to Get It)” that described different ways to retrieve system information, Elvis Budimlic of Centerfield Technology had this to add:

We’ve faced this issue as well. Our solution was to create a command for customer download that provides all