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IBM Midrange is a general term referring to the business computing platform also known as AS/400, iSeries, i5, IBM i, et al.

Originally introduced on June 21, 1988 the platform has been continually updated to support and integrate with modern technologies while maintaining source and binary compatibility.

The platform includes an integrated database server and natively supports many application servers including , and .

Common programming languages for the IBM Midrange platform include:

For more information see the Wikipedia article on IBM System i.

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IBM System i Permissions on Database views

We have an IBM System i running IBM i OS v6r1. On this system, I have created some database views. What I want to do is give a particular user group access to ONLY these views and nothing else within the library in which the views reside. Is this…
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Is there a way for iSeries AS400 sessions not get disconnected or locked

I have to deal with this in a daily basis: For some reason, maybe due to input error, our users get their sessions disconnected from our iSeries AS400 and I have to manually enter the command: WRKCFGSTS *DEV SESSIONAME and change it to status…
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Is IBM's OS V7R2 the same as AIX?

Im working with a an iSeries Power 7+ server and the operating system is V7R2, is this a version of AIX or a completely different OS?
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iis 7 application pools not starting after installing ibm client access

I have a windows 2008 dev/testing server setup for testing web apps. I just installed ibm client access (v6r1m0) and after my reboot my sites now get a 503 service unavailable error. My application pools will not start and I get the following in the…
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Capabilities of AS400 FTP Client

I have a customer who is attempting to send data to my company via FTP, from an AS400. The customer maintains that all usernames and passwords are converted to upper-case by the AS400 FTP client. This is a deal-breaker on my end. In addition to…
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How to know available disk space in AS400 tape?

I tried the DSPTAP command but it only shows the size of the objects saved, there is no indication on how much space is still available.
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"runas" or "sudo" equivalent on AS400 IBM iSeries

I'm trying to invoke a program to run as another user (by getting input user/pwd) in AS400 OS using Java. Like runas in Windows or sudo in Unix — what can we do in AS400 OS? I am able to invoke basic Unix commands like find, cd, ls etc. through Java…
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Why is it especially bad to reboot a mainframe?

This is something I've heard a lot throughout my career, from practically every mainframe operator/admin I've ever worked with, and up until now, I never really questioned it, or had a reason to care one way or another. Never reboot a mainframe,…
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Connecting to AS/400 hardware

In about 2-3 weeks I'm getting an old AS/400 server (something 9406, probably 6xx or 8xx) to learn OS/400 from administrators point of view. Will I need some special hardware to connect and do IPL (and probably install OS/400)? UPDATE: I dont have…
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AS400 Backup Inquiry?

Can someone tell me the commands to view the status or logs of our backup jobs that are running on our AS400? Our sysadmin decided to walk out last week and I would like to check on these jobs to ensure that everything is running ok. Also, how can I…
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Wordpress on AS/400

My client needs one clarification before assigning a job. Is it possible to run Wordpress on AS/400?
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Linux on IBM iSeries 9406-520

I am looking to purchase an IBM iSeries 9406-520, and would like to run Linux on it without using OS/400. My understanding is that bare metal Linux is not possible on the iSeries (i.e. OS/400 must be installed), but this is not true for the p series…
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CORS headers not added in Apache

I've been working on this issue for days. I'm a developer and my knowledge of these things is very limited, still there's no one available in this company to assist me with this issue. This really has to get resolved, as it's getting a blocking…
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Data location of IBM i Apache server descriptions in HTTPAdmin interface

I'm working on replicating Apache servers to a HA box, and I can replicate the servers themselves correctly (QUSRSYS/QATMHINSTC and the associated files in /www/), but I cannot find where the description field is stored for the servers through the…
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Telnet connection to an AS400 system via telnetlib (Python)

I use telnetlib - Python - to create a telnet client - port 23 - to communicate with an AS/400 server. communication with the telnet command that is no problem, but with telnetlib I do not get any message. Here is my code: import getpass import…
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