Re: General AS/400 Question

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Dorr wrote:

> Let me start by saying that I am new to the AS/400 world.  The Bay
> District Data Center (where I work) has been an MVS mainframe shop
> since 1986.  We are in the process of changing platforms to an AS/400
> S20 model (for application dev) and a 640 series (for production).
>
> My question:
>    Is there a generally accepted standard set of system tools that most
> companies use on their machines. >

I HEARTILY echo the endorsements of help/Systems products. We have been using
them since the pre-AS/400 S/38 days !

We use:

Robot which a job scheduler.
Robot Console which is a "message handler".
Robot Alert which works with Console to notify people of problems.
Ezview which lets you work with files (and drives auditors NUTS... :-))

There tech is GREAT !!

Ditto for Pathfinder/Hawkeye.

This is a "documentation" tool and a WHOLE lot more !!

Again, EXCELLENT tech support !

You might also want to look at DASD+ from Eti Solutions.

This is a "disk management and reporting tool".

SRS/Spool from LXI with lets you save spool files to tape.

Chuck

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