TCP/IP Printing Problem

August 9, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Joe:

We recently applied some PTFs on our 15+ iSeries systems, which caused us some strange problems. [The writer is referring to the article, “Three Ways to Direct OS/400 Output Queues to TCP/IP Printers,” Midrange Guru, OS/400 Edition.]

We had remote output queues configured with uppercase RAW, RAW1, and RAW2 where the one and two can be I/O network card slots. Printers like an HP5Si or HP8000 would use the card slot numbers. After applying the PTFs, our printers quit printing. We called IBM; they recommend using lowercase raw,raw1, and raw2. Sure enough, we changed that and our

Default Connection for CAE Users

August 9, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

I thought you might be interested in a tip for assigning a connection for Operations Navigator (OpsNav) to a default user profile on Windows 2000 PCs.

If you use the CWBCFG.exe command, which comes with Client Access Express, you can accomplish this task easily.

Without CWBCFG, each user would have to use the OpsNav connection wizard to establish a connection to an iSeries host.

Here is the syntax of CWBCFG:

CWBCFG [/host hostname] [/ipaddr address] [/view connect] 
       [/uid userid] [/r] [/s].

• The hostname is the iSeries connection name in Operations Navigator.
• The address is

Date and Time Functions in V5R1 RPG

August 9, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

Here’s a snippet of RPG code that loads timestamp variables from legacy date formats and date/time variables.

It shows how to use three new built-in functions to make date/time comparisons easier than they used to be.

The problem arises when dates and times are stored in separate fields and must be compared.

Maybe the dates and times are in fields of the date and time data types, but in many databases, they’re stored in plain old alpha or numeric fields.

To compare two date/time combinations requires logic like the following example:

* is job-on date/time before scheduled date/time?