Originally posted by: ELP
Here you go. Take aspirin for headaches, Midol for cramps.
Ok, I know it's a mainframe or some kind of proprietary system but does anybody have any links to a guide of the basics? Kind of a AS400 for dummies. I just want to get familiarized with it from a support/admin perspective.
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: ELP
Here you go. Take aspirin for headaches, Midol for cramps.
hell yes. everytime my phone rings and its the Missuri Dept of Correction i want to run out of here screaming. They access our ass/400db for various reasons. they are our only customer that uses it and im so sick of supporting it. Problem is i have never had any offical training on it. just here you go Don this baby is yours learn it well. :|
Ok, I know it's a mainframe or some kind of proprietary system but does anybody have any links to a guide of the basics? Kind of a AS400 for dummies. I just want to get familiarized with it from a support/admin perspective.
no you dont.
What is AS400?
Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: ELP
Here you go. Take aspirin for headaches, Midol for cramps.
hell yes. everytime my phone rings and its the Missuri Dept of Correction i want to run out of here screaming. They access our ass/400db for various reasons. they are our only customer that uses it and im so sick of supporting it. Problem is i have never had any offical training on it. just here you go Don this baby is yours learn it well. :|
Ok, I know it's a mainframe or some kind of proprietary system but does anybody have any links to a guide of the basics? Kind of a AS400 for dummies. I just want to get familiarized with it from a support/admin perspective.
no you dont.
correction... I have to.
Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: ELP
Here you go. Take aspirin for headaches, Midol for cramps.
hell yes. everytime my phone rings and its the Missuri Dept of Correction i want to run out of here screaming. They access our ass/400db for various reasons. they are our only customer that uses it and im so sick of supporting it. Problem is i have never had any offical training on it. just here you go Don this baby is yours learn it well. :|
Ok, I know it's a mainframe or some kind of proprietary system but does anybody have any links to a guide of the basics? Kind of a AS400 for dummies. I just want to get familiarized with it from a support/admin perspective.
no you dont.
correction... I have to.
An AS/400 is an expensive, antiquated piece of hardware with an operating system that is so stable it makes Linux look like WinME. One of the only redeeming values of an AS/400 is it's stability so you know that whenver you touch one, you can easily destroy the work of hundeds of people.
Originally posted by: dman
Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: ELP
Here you go. Take aspirin for headaches, Midol for cramps.
hell yes. everytime my phone rings and its the Missuri Dept of Correction i want to run out of here screaming. They access our ass/400db for various reasons. they are our only customer that uses it and im so sick of supporting it. Problem is i have never had any offical training on it. just here you go Don this baby is yours learn it well. :|
Ok, I know it's a mainframe or some kind of proprietary system but does anybody have any links to a guide of the basics? Kind of a AS400 for dummies. I just want to get familiarized with it from a support/admin perspective.
no you dont.
correction... I have to.
An AS/400 is an expensive, antiquated piece of hardware with an operating system that is so stable it makes Linux look like WinME. One of the only redeeming values of an AS/400 is it's stability so you know that whenver you touch one, you can easily destroy the work of hundeds of people.
They still make/sell 'em new. Wouldn't call it antiquated unless it actually is an old one... But the AS/400's are now called iSeries and have many roles. Hunt around support site for 'redbooks'. Might be some stuff there that is helpful... but really a training class (actually a few) is in order--if you are being expected to support it.
in fact, that we actually had to look up how to turn it off, when we had to take the building power out once. No one had remembered actually having to do that...and our IT staff has been there for abotu six years.
Originally posted by: vi_edit
in fact, that we actually had to look up how to turn it off, when we had to take the building power out once. No one had remembered actually having to do that...and our IT staff has been there for abotu six years.
Mine has a nice menu when you log in as the security officer that provides critical systems tasks...adding users, doing backups, shutting down the system, ect. I can do a shutdown with about 5 keystrokes on ours. Don't know if that's a standard thing, or if it's a custom screen built by our software guys.
I'm pretty sure that's your proprietary software. But our AS/400 is about 4.5 years old, running a considerably older OS....so YMMV.
Originally posted by: Slap
Yeah it is now called the iSeries and the commands can become complicated. We have written shorter custom commands to use instead of the long IBM ones. For example...... WAJ for work active jobs, WOQ for work outq, SPW for start print writer, etc. That helps a lot. The green screen really bothers people, but with the newest iSeries Access Ops Navigator you can do 95-98% admin using its GUI.
An AS/400 is an expensive, antiquated piece of hardware with an operating system that is so stable it makes Linux look like WinME. One of the only redeeming values of an AS/400 is it's stability so you know that whenver you touch one, you can easily destroy the work of hundeds of people.
No. Reread what I said. It is very fast and efficient, but like others have said, it has a 'green screen' interface very similiar to that of the 70s.
Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
interesting.... learning a little just by reading this thread. I don't need to become an expert at it. I just need to be familiar enough with it so I don't look at it like it's an alien device.