Re: ABCs of OS/400 administration?

[Jan Megannon <jmegannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Maynard wrote:

>  I feel lost and adrift, and want to fix that.
>
> Case in point: the LaserJet printer issue I asked about earlier this week.
> (I've since gotten some very good information on the subject.) Until that
> discussion, I didn't know that printer queues and printers were two separate
> things defined (or definable) separately.
>
> I> As far as setting up systems (subsystems, memory pools, tuning, etc.) look
> > under Systems Management in the Work Management guide.
>
> Ah, one piece of information I'd been wondering about; the terminals in my
> system all are owned (?) by QBASE, yet other AS/400s I've seen use QINTER or
> QCTL or... I don't know what the differences are, or why it makes a
> difference. (It may not, in my environment, but I'd like to know.)
>

> At this point, I don't even know if I'll have the Client Access host side
> stuff installed when I get 5.1 running, or if it's an extra-cost feature on
> top of the client programs. Since one of the purposes of this box is
> development of something that will talk to Client Access, that's kinda
> important.

Hi Jay,

On www.iseriesnetwork.com you can  go have a look for 'Starter Kit for the 
AS/400
and iSeries' by Wayne Madden. Although there are many entry level topics in
there, it gives you quite an overview of many things : Jobq's, outq's, routing
entries, subsystems, etc. It also explains how many of the things hang together.
IIRC, the price is about US$ 75.00.

Cheers.

Jan Megannon.

'Giving money and power to goverment is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys!'  P.J. O'Rourke.