IBM I TIPS AND TECHNIQUES A HODGE PODGE OF HELPFUL IBM I INFORMATION PROVIDED BY LAURA AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS PRESENTED BY LAURA

PROVIDED BY LAURA WRKSYSSTS SHOWS DISK UTILIZATION THIS EXAMPLE % SPACE IS USED TIP 1 RTVDSKINF QAEZDISK HELPS MANAGE DISK UTILIZATION

TIP 1 RTVDSKINF QAEZDISK PROVIDED BY LAURA RTVDSKINF UPDATES FILE QAEZDISK CAN BE RUN FROM COMMAND LINE OR FROM THE JOB SCHEDULER

TIP 1 RTVDSKINF QAEZDISK PROVIDED BY LAURA GO DISKTASKS OPT 1 RTVDSKINF OPT 2 PRTDSKINF RTVDSKINF CREATES QAEZDISK PRTDSKINF PRINTS A REPORT WITH OPTIONS *LIB *FLR *OWN *OBJ OR *SYS

TIP 1 RTVDSKINF QAEZDISK PROVIDED BY LAURA CAN USE QUERY, SQL OR PRTDSKINF REPORT CAN BE SCHEDULED TO RUN ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE AND CAPTURED AWESOME FOR ANALYSIS OF DISK UTLIZEATION

TIP 1 RTVDSKINF QAEZDISK PROVIDED BY LAURA EXAMPLE REPORT

THE QADBIFLD FILE IN QSYS LIBRARY CONTAINS ALL THE FILES AND FIELDS ON THE SYSTEM. VERY USEFUL! THERE ARE SEVERAL FILES STARTING WITH QADB WITH INFORMATION ON ALL FILE AND VIEW INFORMATION AND MORE QADBCCST *FILE QSYS PF CONSTRAINT FIELD USAGE INFO QADBFCST *FILE QSYS PF FILE LEVEL CONSTRAINT CROSS QADBFDEP *FILE QSYS PF CROSS REFERENCE DEPENDENCY QADBIFLD *FILE QSYS PF CROSS REFERENCE PHYSICAL FI QADBKFLD *FILE QSYS PF CROSS REFERENCE PHYSICAL FI QADBPKG *FILE QSYS PF SQL PACKAGE PHYSICAL FILE QADBXMQT *FILE QSYS PF QADBXRDBD *FILE QSYS PF QADBXREF *FILE QSYS PF QADBXSFLD *FILE QSYS PF QADBXTRIGB *FILE QSYS PF QADBXTRIGC *FILE QSYS PF QADBXTRIGD *FILE QSYS PF TIP 2 QADBIFLD PROVIDED BY LAURA

CREATED BY GREG SHEFFERLY TIP 3 FIND COMMAND HELPS FINDING SOURCE CODE CONSISTS OF CMD, DSPF AND SQLRPGLE

CREATED BY GREG SHEFFERLY TIP 3 FIND COMMAND HELPS FINDING SOURCE CODE

CREATED BY GREG SHEFFERLY TIP 3 FIND COMMAND HELPS FINDING SOURCE CODE

CREATED BY GREG SHEFFERLY TIP 3 FIND COMMAND HELPS FINDING SOURCE CODE

PROVIDED BY LAURA CVTRPGSRC ENTER VALUES IN THIS EXAMPLE RPG PROGRAM CHECKDAT IS CONVERTED FROM RPG TO RPGLE CHECKDAT1 TIP 4 CVTRPGSRC CONVERT FROM RPG TO RPGLE

PROVIDED BY LAURA AFTER CONVERTED THE PROGRAM CAN BE COMPILED, IT’S THAT SIMPLE! GREAT TO UPDATE OLD CODE TO NEW CODE. TIP 4 CVTRPGSRC CONVERT FROM RPG TO RPGLE

FIND THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE SPOOL FILE YOU’D LIKE TO COPY TO A PHYSICAL FILE TIP 5 CPYSPLF COPY THE CONTENTS OF A SPOOL FILE TO A PHYSICAL FILE PROVIDED BY LAURA

CREATE THE FILE SAME WIDTH AS SPOOL FILE TIP 5 CPYSPLF COPY THE CONTENTS OF A SPOOL FILE TO A PHYSICAL FILE PROVIDED BY LAURA

COMPLETE THE COPY USING THE SPOOL FILE ATTRIBUTES TO IDENTIFY THE SPOOL FILE BEING COPIED TIP 5 CPYSPLF COPY THE CONTENTS OF A SPOOL FILE TO A PHYSICAL FILE PROVIDED BY LAURA

THE FILE CAN BE QUERIED USING SQL OR QUERY400, USED BY A CL OR RPG OR WEB APPLICATION TIP 5 CPYSPLF COPY THE CONTENTS OF A SPOOL FILE TO A PHYSICAL FILE PROVIDED BY LAURA

CONFIGURE CLIENT ACCESS PRINTER SESSION CREATES OUTQ TIP 6 PRINTING TO LOCAL PRINTER PRINT TO YOUR REMOTE PRINTER

PROVIDED BY LAURA OUTQ CREATED WITH NAME DESIGNATED TIP 6 PRINTING TO LOCAL PRINTER PRINT TO YOUR REMOTE PRINTER

PROVIDED BY LAURA SESSION HAS TO BE STARTED TO PRINT TIP 6 PRINTING TO LOCAL PRINTER PRINT TO YOUR REMOTE PRINTER

PROVIDED BY LAURA WRKLICINF SHOWS BOX SERIAL NUMBER SHOWS PROCESSOR GROUP TIP 7 SERIAL NUMBER AND PROCESSOR QUICKLY FIND BOX INFO

PROVIDED BY LAURA DSPSYSVAL QMODEL SHOWS BOX MODEL NUMBER IN THIS EXAMPLE E4C TIP 8 BOX MODEL NUMBER QUCIKLY FIND BOX INFO

PROVIDED BY LAURA USING NAVIGATOR BASIC OPERATIONS EITHER DRAG/DROP OR USE FILE EXPORT AND A TEXT FILE WILL BE CREATED TIP 9 FROM SPOOL TO EXCEL CREATE AN EXCEL FILE FROM A SPOOL FILE ACCOUNTING AND OTHER USERS LOVE THIS!

PROVIDED BY LAURA NEXT OPEN EXCEL FROM WITHIN EXCEL OPEN THE TEXT FILE CREATED TIP 9 FROM SPOOL TO EXCEL CREATE AN EXCEL FILE FROM A SPOOL FILE ACCOUNTING AND OTHER USERS LOVE THIS!

PROVIDED BY LAURA MANUEVER BACK AND FORTH UP AND DOWN UNTIL YOU’RE CONTENT WITH COLUMS PRESS NEXT AND FINISH TIP 9 FROM SPOOL TO EXCEL CREATE AN EXCEL FILE FROM A SPOOL FILE ACCOUNTING AND OTHER USERS LOVE THIS!

PROVIDED BY LAURA FROM THIS SPOOL FILE TO THIS EXCEL FILE ONCE DONE IT CAN BE TREATED LIKE ANY OTHER EXCEL FILE TIP 9 FROM SPOOL TO EXCEL CREATE AN EXCEL FILE FROM A SPOOL FILE ACCOUNTING AND OTHER USERS LOVE THIS!

PROVIDED BY LAURA TIP 10 CONVERT A QUERY TO SQL CONVERT FROM QUERY400 TO SQL The RTVQMQRY command can be used extract the SQL statement from a Query. The statement is placed in a designated source file.

PROVIDED BY LAURA TIP 10 CONVERT A QUERY TO SQL CONVERT FROM QUERY400 TO SQL Creates SQL from Query

PROVIDED BY LAURA SIMPLY PRESS F4 CHOOSE BY NAME OR VERB OR SUBJECT ETC…. TIP 11 FINDING A COMMAND WHEN YOU CAN’T REMEMBER THE COMMAND OR MENU

TIP 12 TOP 5 DATABASE SECURITY TIPS WITH IBM CEO GINNI ROMETTY - THINK FORUM

CREATED BY IBMIGEEK.BLOGSPOT.COM TIP 13 IBM I GEEK YOUTUBES HELPS MANAGE DISK UTILIZATION

AS400 TUTORIALS YOUTUBE WRI4PIW6HLX TIP 14 IT - AS400 TUTORIALS HELPS MANAGE DISK UTILIZATION

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