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Print PC Documents to iSeries Printers

August 2, 2006 Hey, Ted

I have access through the Internet to a client’s iSeries machine, which has a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer attached to it. Is it possible for me to print a PC document (for example, a Word processing document or a spreadsheet) to the LaserJet?

–Jim

Here’s how I’ve done just that from my Windows XP machine. First, create an ASCII printer file on the iSeries. Place the name and library of the LaserJet’s output queue in the OUTQ parameter.

CRTPRTF FILE(QGPL/LASERJET)                 
        DEVTYPE(*USERASCII)                 
        TEXT('Print PC documents to Laserjet')
        OUTQ(outqlib/outqname)

Second, install the proper printer driver on your PC. Create the printer as a

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Find Messages That Contain a Text String

August 2, 2006 Hey, IT Jungle Forums

I’m trying to create a utility that will display all messages in a message file that contain a search string in the message description. For example, if we specify the search string as “invalid,” the utility should list all messages in the message file that contain the word invalid.

–Deepa

This question was posted on the IT Jungle Web Forums. I suggested Deepa use Qshell’s grep utility to do the search. The following Qshell command scans message file XUSRMSGF to find the messages that contain the word “date” in any case.

system "DSPMSGD RANGE(*FIRST *LAST) MSGF(XUSRMSGF) 
DETAIL(*BASIC)" |

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Admin Alert: Running Green-Screen Commands from OpsNav, Part 1

August 2, 2006 Joe Hertvik

Because their operating systems are grounded in 5250 green-screen commands, i5, iSeries, and AS/400 machines have always had problems gaining acceptance in a graphical world. IBM responded to this issue years ago by creating the iSeries Navigator program (OpsNav), a graphical interface for the i5/OS operating system. However, Windows users still occasionally need to run text-based 5250 commands. To solve that problem, IBM added a Run Command facility to OpsNav.

Run Command is a somewhat valuable OpsNav feature that allows you to graphically enter and send batch i5/OS commands to an i5 partition for execution. This article is the first

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EDTF and End-of-Line Delimiters

July 26, 2006 Hey, Ted

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

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Another Super-Easy Way to Copy a Spooled File from One Machine to Another

July 26, 2006 Hey, Distinguished IT Pros

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

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Admin Alert: Automatic Ways to Assign Group Authorities to an Object

July 26, 2006 Joe Hertvik

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

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Don’t Depend on Arrival Sequence

July 19, 2006 Hey, Ted

We have a sequential (i.e., unkeyed) database file that contains several years of shipment transactions. We’ve built a lot of indexes over it, and we slice and dice it daily, all day long, from both programs and queries. We have two problems that surface occasionally.

The first problem is that sometimes we are not always able to see shipments in chronological order. Since we only store a shipment date, but not a time, we depend on the order in which shipments are loaded into the file to tell us which shipment occurred before another. Depending on the order in which

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A Super-Easy Way to Copy a Spooled File from One Machine to Another

July 19, 2006 Hey, IT Jungle Forums

The following question was posted to the online forums at IT Jungle: We are getting a new iSeries and upgrading to V5R3. At present, we are on V5R1. We plan to run parallel for testing. Is there a way to move the output queues and/or their contents to the new machine?

—pmslic

Here is the answer that RussK provided.

I just found a note I’d made on iSeries Navigator: “In a multi-system environment, you can even drag from an outq on system ‘A’ to an outq on system ‘B’, and the spooled files will move from one system

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Admin Alert: PC5250 Session Files–Where to Find Them, Where to Store Them

July 19, 2006 Joe Hertvik

One big pain in configuring iSeries Access for Windows PC5250 sessions is determining where to store your session files and how to create shortcuts so that your users can easily locate and launch their 5250 sessions. Like many things in the computer world, however, session file management is not as clear cut as it should be. But there are a few simple tricks for simplifying the process on a Windows desktop.

What Are PC5250 Session Files?

As you probably know, PC5250 session files are executable Windows files created by using the PC5250 emulation program in IBM‘s iSeries Access for

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Unix Calls from OCL

July 12, 2006 Hey, Ted

Our shop runs a System/36 emulation environment on an RS/6000 AIX machine. We want to move this environment to an i5. In our current situation, we issue a ton of Unix calls within our OCL procedures. We have over 5,500 of these calls. We’re trying to wrap our arms around understanding the impact/feasibility of the move to the i5. If we can’t continue the Unix calls “as is,” going to the i5 probably will not happen.

We plan to keep the RS/6000 along with the i5. So, in a nutshell, is there a way to issue the Unix calls from

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