Jul
02
2009
IBM i / AS400 QSTRUP is the CL program loaded when the system boots and it may be useful to change it. You may want to add the MKDIR command line for instance to have a permanent share mounted.I’m saying program as QSTRUP is a compiled program, rather than a simple text file. You can get […]
Tags: AS400, IBM i, iSeries, QSTRUP
Jul
02
2009
IBM i can communicate with all major operating systems to reach remote files: Windows, Linux and any Unix flavour, and other IBM i of course. It provides multiple filesystems that let you access remote shares. A diagram of these filesystems is available on IBM website. Windows Shared Folders IBM i communicates with Windows servers with […]
Tags: AS400, IBM i, iSeries, NFS, unix, Windows
Jun
18
2009
SST password is required to access iSeries maintenance section and IBM systematically needs it. However, it is also not unusual to lose the password.Most SST password reset procedures require you to run an IPL (reboot) in degraded mode. This is not absolutely needed if you have an HMC server. Open a 5250 session to connect to […]
Tags: AS400, HMC, IBM i, iSeries
Apr
10
2009
AS400 CPU and memory resources monitoring can be handled with the SNMP protocol if SNMP service has been enabled. Values are not directly exploitable and need to be worked on before being displayed. All of these commands were executed on a Linux server. Check your Linux distribution to install snmpwalk, there’s a package for it […]
Tags: AS400, IBM i, iSeries, mrtg, snmp