Re: Global library list

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam

Now that's interesting - a "new" word processing program on the 400. Is it 
green screen? GUI? Java? Just curious.

Looks as if you need Al Barsa's presentation on system values. Most of 
these "global" or system settings are in system values. (the usual panoply 
- WRKSYSVAL, DSPSYSVAL, CHGSYSVAL). If you're not completely used to the 
IBM AS/400 way of naming things, just leave out vowels (heh heh) mostly and 
watart with 'Q'. You get QUSRLIBL. Be sure you have authorization to change 
this - not system authorization but company authorization - just because 
you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD.  ;-)

If your job title means anything (and which of our titles really mean 
ANYthing?), you need to get familiar with the system values. You could go 
tp www.iseries.ibm.com/infocenter, look under the Systems Management topic 
for the System Values topic and dig away.

A relatively new item on iSeries is environment variables. They little or 
no bearing on traditional iSeries system operations. Rather, they have 
meaning mostly for UNIX-type stuff - Things that run in QShell & 
PASE.  System values are functionally equivalent to environment variables 
on other systems, for the most part.

There's no reason NOT to use envir. vars, but it's never been a part of the 
400. The nice thing is, you can add envir vars, you can't add system 
values. So you could store something in an envir var for another program to 
use.

I recently saw system values described as objects. Don't know - they might 
be IN an object. Doesn't matter, but they are permanent. OTOH, envir vars 
need to be set every time you start the system or job. That's the function 
of the .profile file in UNIX - to hold the settings to use when signing on.

Different ways to do the same thing.

More than you ever asked, eh?   ;-)

HTH
Vern

At 07:36 AM 6/5/2004, you wrote:
> There is a new word processing program we are installing on our AS/400, it
> goes in the library DILIB.  We need to put the library in the users library
> list.  As opposed to manually adding it to every user profile, is there
> something that can be done to put it into an already existent default global
> library list that users already access?
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com