RE: Old AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Bob,

Many things will work as documented, especially basic system management
functions.

As for your disks, you can see what disks you have and get information about
them and what they're doing in several different ways.  For starters,
WRKDSKSTS will show you unit numbers, types, capacities, and various
utilization statistics.  There are also options in STRSST that will show you
info on them.  However, forget the notion of disk volume names and libraries
being tied to specific disks.  That concept does not exist on the /400 in
any recognizable form.  For most purposes, you can think of the disks on the
/400 as belonging to a single large "volume", with all the libraries stored
on it.  There are no "normal" interfaces to show you which disks have which
objects on them, or to manipulate that in any direct manner.

As for the friendliness of the interface, that's a matter of opinion.  There
are lots of different ways to find commands on the /400 without knowing what
they are in advance.  How would I find the command "manage disks" on the
Wang if I didn't know what it was called?  If you're using a GUI on the
Wang, you can't compare to V2R1 green screens, since when that release first
shipped 10 years ago there was no GUI for the /400.  Operations Navigator on
V3 and V4 systems provides a GUI which has a point-and-click that will get
you to disk information.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Sitko [mailto:solarsystems@email.com]

Thanks for the information.  I successfully used PWRDWNSYS.
Also, DSPOBJD (which ran for about 10 mins. -- I thought it was broke!)
indicates that the system is at level 2.1.

I ordered some AS/400 manuals from Amazon.com; will these newer manuals be
of any help with such an old operating system?  Will some things work as
documented (will ANY?).

Next question:  how do I display what disks are on the system, their volume
IDs, and what libraries they have on them?  Remember, I'm coming from a Wang
minicomputer, which resembles the AS/400 in many ways, but has a much more
user friendly interface:  you just press "manage disks", then pick the
volume you want, then the library from that volume.

Thanks,

Bob Sitko

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Use DSPOBJD QCMD and scroll through the information;
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