Re: Training Help

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

I think the best financial investment is to:

1. Find the CD that came free with every AS/400, or order another from IBM if
you have misplaced it.  This was the on-line class in "Getting to know your
AS/400" (fundamentals) that does in fact show everything that the AS/400 can
do, excluding the internet aspects.

You can get that by showing him book marks to great web sites that are
powered by an AS/400, or utilize capabilities found on no other computer
system, such as
http://www.erros.co.uk/ & the review of significance of this approach at
http://www.400times.co.uk/Documents/ERROS1.htm
http://www.lansa.com click on Showcase
check the archives for additional links

2. Get him the IBM education card & have him go to IBM school for classes at
intervals of at least one class a month.  He will come back from each class
with tons of manuals, including the student handbook of the latest class,
with tons of examples of how to do things.

Being in Kansas City you have an advantage because one of the IBM University
campuses is located right there.  The advantage is over those of us who have
to travel hundreds of miles to the closest IBM campus & arrange lodging in
that community.  So our financial trade-off is to find several adjacent
needed classes of 2 days 3 days to cut the travel expenses in half.

3. If your site does not already have the News/400/network membership, get it.
4. Show him how to access the search engine archives of this list.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
BPCS 405 CD Manager / Programmer @ Global Wire Technologies Incorporated
http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com = new name same quality wire
engineering company: fax # 812-424-6838

> Our Network Administrator/System Operator recently left the company.  The
>  individual we hired to replace him has strong PC and networking skills, but
>  a very limited knowledge of the AS/400.  Can you suggest any resources that
>  we can use to help get him up to speed?  I'd really like to find something
>  that could give him a good overview of what an AS/400 can do, along with
>  basic system operations, definitions, etc.  I'd love to find a good general
>  reference book(s) that we could add to our company library.
>
>  Thanks for your assistance.
>
>  Janell Haskins
>  Programmer/Analyst
>  Knit-Rite, Inc.
>  Kansas City, KS