Understanding AS/400 System Operations

Coverage includes learning key day-to-day operations on an AS/400 computer system including IPL, stopping the system, backup and recovery, and system cleanup; creating and maintaining user environments, device configuration and management, job management, security implementation, work and data management, and TCP/IP configuration; working with console operations including jobs, message handling, spool files, and devices; accessing the AS/400 through Operations Navigator and traditional methods; and learning the material for two IBM AS/400 certification exams (Associate and Professional system operators). Dawson is a programmer and author of several books on AS/400 topics; Hohly is IBM AS/400 certified in both operations and system administration.

About the Author

Mike Dawson has been programming on mainframe and midrange computers since 1974. He is the author of four books on AS/400 topics ranging from performance to operations, including The AS/400 Owner's Manual for V4 . He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.