Re: What to teach someone new to IBMi

How I learned.

I started a new job as a computer operator on a SYS38.

I asked what commands are available on the system. The manager pulled the little slide out shelf on the desk and there were 10 commands laminated to it. I asked if that was it and the response was that is what was told to us.

I spent the next year reading the CL command reference & user guides.

What we do is either something you love or something you just don't get.

Jim
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 9:12 AM
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+1

The help key is one of your most valuable assets.
And there are usually good examples at the end.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Bipes
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 9:10 AM
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Teach them the command structure and show them the astrick "wrkobj*" Then show them the help key.

If the online prompting and help does not impress them, give them their walking papers.

To me that is the biggest advantage over any flavor of *nix that I have had the pleasure of working with.


Chris Bipes

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 4:38 AM
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Subject: RE: What to teach someone new to IBMi

Good thought process Ed. I didn't think of qs-hell.

First, show them Infocenter.
Show them this list.
Show them Developer Works and how to find the applicable communities and
forums there.

Support? That might depend on what your definition of support is.

Save/restore and BRMS duties?
Configuring new printers and handling their issues?
Putting on PTF's and upgrades?
Monitoring for errors and seeing that the appropriate resources handle
them?
Performance?

Show them 5250 but also show them the full gamut of applications available
with IBM i Access Client Solutions.
Show them how to create a share, modify permissions, etc. Inform them
that sharing root will be construed as submitting their resignation
though.
Show them how to find the new services available in SQL and the Db2
catalog. Actually people from other platforms eat that up. Much of the
normal catalog like systables, etc is available on other platforms.
Show them how to serve and consume NFS shares. Ok, other platforms may
use export but we use exportfs because someone used the export command in
binder language.

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