Tips

Tips

iSeries system performance and monitoring

• Analyze the health of your IBM i server with iScore

  While more comprehensive services exist, iScore from Vision Solutions offers a free and general introductory analysis of your system's health.  Continue Reading

• Translating Linux for IBM i admins: Working with jobs and networking

  Learn the Linux equivalent to WRKACTJOB and how NETSTAT works on in Linux. This tip continues to translate Linux commands for AS/400 adminstrators who are not familiar with the complexities of the language.  Continue Reading

• Database performance comparisons on IBM i

  Testing performance of RLA in the IBM Java Toolbox against JDBC and native I/O for the AS/400 revealed that RPG on System i is the most efficient language, and DB2 is taken for granted. Joe Pluta built some benchmarks to compare different aspects of...  Continue Reading

• Performance tuning for IBM i: The basics and beyond

  Raymond Johnson answers five reader-submitted questions about performance tuning on the AS/400. Some quick tips and tricks for performance tuning are provided.  Continue Reading

• Checking on System i disk space requires creating a new command: XRTVSYSSTS

  Monitoring System i disk space is imperative to keeping your system up and running. If a process begins to loop endlessly without notice, it can fill up a working file and bring everything to a halt. XRTVSYSSTS can save the day.  Continue Reading

• Viewing netstat information

  Though the netstat command line tool is no substitute for full-blown systems monitoring software, it provides good, quick network information on demand.  Continue Reading

• Compiler directives -- reap the benefits

  Paul Tuohey shares the way he uses compiler directives in his programs.  Continue Reading

• Clean up programs and procedures to increase data and application integrity -- part 1

  Ron Turull explains how to clean up programs and procedures to increase data and application integrity.  Continue Reading

• Redirect ODBC jobs to your own subsystem

  Substitute (your_lib) with the library you want to contain the subsystem i.e. QGPL.  Continue Reading

• Check active Job

  Wondering how to check to see if a Job is active? This utility program checks to see if a Job is active and returns 'y/n' flag.  Continue Reading

• Use the RTVSBSSTS command to retrieve the subsystem status

  Use the RTVSBSSTS command to retrieve the subsystem status  Continue Reading

• Sys req command line

  To get a command line using Sys Req you first need to WRKMSGD CPX2313, Option 2 to change the second word DSPJOB to WRKJOB. When you use Sys Req Option 3 you get a command line, as well as the job menu.  Continue Reading

• Display SAVF PTF status

  This program displays SAVF and their respective PTF status; function to delete SAVF that have been applied/superseded.  Continue Reading

• Display all the jobs that have a lock on an IFS object

  Learn how to display all the jobs that have a lock on an Integrated File Systems Object with these simple steps.  Continue Reading

• Calculate in/out bytes

  Calculate and find out how many bytes are coming in and going out from a certain address on your iSeries.  Continue Reading