Re: Global library list -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Adam

Now that's interesting - a "new" word processing program on the 400. Is it green screen? GUI? Java? Just curious.

Looks as if you need Al Barsa's presentation on system values. Most of these "global" or system settings are in system values. (the usual panoply - WRKSYSVAL, DSPSYSVAL, CHGSYSVAL). If you're not completely used to the IBM AS/400 way of naming things, just leave out vowels (heh heh) mostly and watart with 'Q'. You get QUSRLIBL. Be sure you have authorization to change this - not system authorization but company authorization - just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD. ;-)

If your job title means anything (and which of our titles really mean ANYthing?), you need to get familiar with the system values. You could go tp www.iseries.ibm.com/infocenter, look under the Systems Management topic for the System Values topic and dig away.

A relatively new item on iSeries is environment variables. They little or no bearing on traditional iSeries system operations. Rather, they have meaning mostly for UNIX-type stuff - Things that run in QShell & PASE. System values are functionally equivalent to environment variables on other systems, for the most part.

There's no reason NOT to use envir. vars, but it's never been a part of the 400. The nice thing is, you can add envir vars, you can't add system values. So you could store something in an envir var for another program to use.

I recently saw system values described as objects. Don't know - they might be IN an object. Doesn't matter, but they are permanent. OTOH, envir vars need to be set every time you start the system or job. That's the function of the .profile file in UNIX - to hold the settings to use when signing on.

Different ways to do the same thing.

More than you ever asked, eh?   ;-)

HTH
Vern

At 07:36 AM 6/5/2004, you wrote:

There is a new word processing program we are installing on our AS/400, it
goes in the library DILIB.  We need to put the library in the users library
list.  As opposed to manually adding it to every user profile, is there
something that can be done to put it into an already existent default global
library list that users already access?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com