Apr 16 2012
Your Excel files on remote networks take up to 2 minutes to load? You think there’s something wrong with your VPN or you need to tune Office? Not at all, here’s how to load your files in just a few seconds! I couldn’t understand why my remote files were so slow to open from a Windows […]
Dec 07 2011
You can easily concatenate ascii or binary files with the Windows command prompt using COPY: Where dest is the destination filename
Nov 10 2011
Here’s a script that deletes all the Backup Exec B2D files part of a media set. Stick the following script into a .bat file and edit the first 3 settings Mediaset, B2Dfolder and BEPath.You can run it straight. I consider it is good practice to do for the following reasons:– You can of course set the […]
Jan 18 2011
You can open any kind of document on Windows from an IBM i 5250 session or a CL program.The type of file can either be an image or a picture (jpeg, tiff, bmp, png), a video (avi, mpeg), a PDF, an office document (word, excel, powerpoint), and even an Internet link (URL). AS400 provides the strpccmd […]
Jan 16 2011
Based on advice from a Microsoft techie, I decided to set up DFS (Distributed File System) on a few remote sites about a year ago. Sceptical at first, The product is so disappointing that I decided to warn people who haven’t made their mind up. Here are 6 good reasons NOT to use DFS Replication No […]