The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4

Midrange Computing's all-time best-selling manual is now V4R3-ready! Designed for AS/400 professionals at all levels, The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4 walks you through hundreds of AS/400 tasks from the perspective of how most shops do them. It cuts through the dozens of parameters and options of AS/400 commands and takes you directly to the results you need. But The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4 offers much more than brief, to-the-point instructions. It also includes valuable descriptions of why AS/400 managers, administrators, operators, and programmers do certain things on the machine and how the AS/400 works internally. This edition is completely up-to-date for Version 4 and contains a new chapter about the Internet and TCP/IP. Wire-bound and concise, The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4 is the perfect tool to keep next to the workstation of anyone who does AS/400 operations, administration, or management.

New Items in the V4 Edition:
   License key
   System password
   How to order PTF release-to-release comparisons
   Internet access for PTF/HIPER currency
   New memory and activity level configuration
   Communication jobs
   Job threads
   46 new shared memory pools
   Proactive user ASP control
   A fast, easy way to clean up your system of old objects
   User, group, and supplemental group profiles
   Server security
   New system values
   New command to save system security data
   New commands for save (SAV) and restore (RST)
   Performance tips for save and restore efficiency
   Remote journaling
   Performance tips for journaling efficiency
   The AS/400 dynamic performance tuning tool
   IBM¬ís new performance tools
   Client/Server and Internet performance tips
   Wireless LAN support
   OptiConnect/400
   Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) for AS/400
   File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for AS/400
   Step-by-step guide to getting your AS/400 on the Internet


Upon completion of this book, you will be able to:
   • Start or power down an AS/400
   • Monitor, order, and install PTFs
   • Configure an entire new AS/400
   • Create subsystems and assign memory and activity levels
   • Understand what activity levels are and how to set them
   • Tune and retune the AS/400 for optimum performance on any job mix
   • Order and install new releases of the operating system and other program products
   • Create and implement a security strategy
   • Control and use AS/400 logs, messages, and audits
   • Work with hundreds of system values
   • Create and link user and group profiles
   • Control security for users and objects
   • React quickly and effectively to solve AS/400 performance problems
   • Set up and use journaling, including remote journaling to another system
   • Configure the AS/400 for any supported communication protocol
   • Configure the AS/400 as an Internet server



Mike Dawson has been programming on mainframe and midrange computers since 1974. He is the author of four books on AS/400 topics ranging from performance to operations, including The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4.

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