AS/400 issues

I like AS/400 issues... Why, because there are always so many logs... I really love job logs... As far as an OS is concerned, does logging get any better? Event viewer is good, but not great. stdin and stdout is okay, but job logs... They boil my potato!

I was configuring a DR AS/400 today and was getting a really strange error "Cannot resolve to object QBFCPRCED". When we looked for that object on the DR machine, it did not exist... YET, when I looked at the object on the prod machine it did... what does that tell you? Not a good start to a DR machine it tells me. How do people expect this thing to work without the correct foundation... Anyways... Despite this, there were a bunch of PTF's that were installed but not applied. We IPL'd the 400 (30 mins later, brand new 520!) to install the PTFs - Bob's your uncle and fanny is your aunt (I said aunt) She started working!

Remember if you want to build up an ent server (or change the name), you gotta do the following:
JDE.INI on the server - old to new
update SY and SVM F98611 and F986101
Update F9650 and F9651
Update client ini files

All of the fat client ODBC's needed to be changed, export the ODBC part of the reg and do a search and replace - much easier.

Remember that the web servers (despite maybe having a fat client), do not use ODBC - all JDBC. These are loaded up on the fly from F98611 - so you don't gotta worry about them.