Feb 18 2016
QSHELL and PASE on IBM i are nice tools but remain quite limited with the fixed size 5250 window with no scroll bars. Let’s see how to make it better with a secure SSH connection and a few tricks. Launch SSH Daemon Considering SSH is installed on your AS400 ie 5733SC1 (OpenSSH, OpenSSL, zlib) in […]
Sep 27 2015
IBM i Client Access – also called Client Access for iSeries – is Windows traditional heavy client to connect to AS400 platforms. While upgrading Client Access, I get a language version mismatch error some time to time. The primary language version Mri2924 that is currently installed does not match the language version MRI2924 to which […]
Sep 13 2015
Apache configured as a reverse proxy forwards requests to a web backend. But your browser throws an enigmatic 503 error: “Service temporarily unavailable”. The first thing I do is looking at the http logs in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log, where I am getting some permission issue:(13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 192.168.1.250:8080 (*) failed You may […]
Sep 06 2015
System admins face more and more ever-growing directories storing auto-generated reports by scripts or scheduled tasks. Same goes to temp directories and nobody bother cleaning them up. But isn’t it our job too?Here are 2 simple scripts that can be run every so often to delete files older than say 30 days for instance in […]
May 26 2015
You may need to launch AS400 sessions at boot for various reasons such as automated scripts or print sessions. Here are a few pitfalls you may encounter. First of all, sessions wouldn’t launch without pcsws.exe extra parameters /H – for Hidden – and eventually /Q – to hide the IBM popup window. pcsws.exe options are […]