LANSA for i Tips
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| May 23, 2018 | V14 SP2 | Instructions for moving the LANSA for i V14 SP2 save file to your
IBM i Instructions for moving the LANSA V14 SP2 save file to your IBM i in preparation for an install or upgrade. |
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| April 22, 2016 | All | How to check for Active Users in a LANSA
system How to check for active users in a LANSA system before performing an upgrade or applying an EPC |
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| April 1, 2016 | V14 | Steps to enable debugging for Server Modules How to enable debugging of Server Modules Visual LANSA Web |
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| July 29, 2015 | All | DNS Name Resolution Takes Longer after Upgrade to V6R1 or Later A document that discusses why DNS resolution takes longer after upgrading to V6R1 or later. |
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| Mar 10, 2015 | All | Can host monitor files be omitted from backing up before upgrading LANSA for i? When upgrading LANSA for i, it is vital to back up your system before commencing so that it is easy to restore if there are any issues |
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| Jan 20, 2015 | All | High Availability/Mirroring with LANSA on IBM i Some suggestions on how to set up High Availability (Mirroring) on IBM i for LANSA |
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| May 15, 2014 | All | Special considerations for LANSA for iSeries installs, upgrades and EPCs if IFS Symbolic links are used. LANSA installs and upgrades will encounter issues with IFS symbolic links - special instructions required |
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| Jul 25, 2013 | All | Sanity tests you can run if you need to verify that PASE is working on IBM i Testing PASE on IBM i |
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| Jul 14, 2013 | V13 | Install/Upgrade LANSA for iSeries V13 using an image catalog Instructions for downloading a LANSA V13 (any SP level) image and adding it to an image catalog |
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| Jul 12, 2013 | All | IBM i CPU information What information to extract to supply to you LANSA representative when requiring a new license |
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| Apr 20, 2012 | All | LANSA shipped objects flagged as requiring conversion by Analyze Object Conversion tool Some LANSA objects flagged as needing conversion may not be required |
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| Oct 23, 2011 | All | Finding and Working with Spool Files Generated under a QPRTJOB Job | LANSA for iSeries How to find the full attributes of a Spool file for a most recently produced Spool file in a job |
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| Mar 22, 2010 | All | LANSA and V7R1 LANSA for iSeries - supported versions |
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| Mar 19, 2009 | Temporary files created in the folder X_LANSA on the IFS can take up significant space Temporary files created in the folder X_LANSA on the IFS are not deleted and can take up significant space |
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| May 18, 2009 | V11.3 | Cleaning up old system variable evaluation programs Old versions of system variable evaluation programs can interfere with your current system |
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| Dec 18, 2008 | Commonly used system control information The following article provides a clear roadmap to assist in obtaining the system control information most commonly requested by 3rd party vendors for licensing purposes |
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| May 27, 2008 | V11 | Listing of objects created by LANSA when compiling on the iSeries This document lists the type of objects created by LANSA when compiled on the iSeries |
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| May 27, 2008 | V11 | How to modify BLOB fields on the iSeries to be greater than 10MB In Version 11 when working with BLOBs you may encounter messages indicating that there is a limit of 10MB |
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Listener fails with error MCH6801 - Object domain or storage protection error When trying to start the LANSA Listener, the Listener fails and error message MCH6801 - Object domain or storage protection error for offset &5 in object &1 appears in the job log |
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Details of support for IBM i 6.1 Customers wishing to use LANSA with IBM i 6.1 should use LANSA V11.5 or later |
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| Oct 19, 2006 | Extended instructions for applying a LANSA EPC to iSeries This page contains extended instructions for moving an EPC to the iSeries |
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| Sep 25, 2006 | Get CCSID and other attributes related to the current Job An approach to retrieve your iSeries Job related attributes |
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| Jul 07, 2006 | V11.3 | How to view the contents of the 2 LANSA iSeries V11.3 CDs LANSA iSeries CD contents |
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| May 19, 2006 | LANSA and V5R4 LANSA support for V5R4 |
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| May 17, 2006 | RDML OTHER file - allow long field names with a length greater than 256 characters LANSA for the iSeries (RDML) is capable of handling fields greater than 256 characters which also have long field names in OTHER files loaded into LANSA |
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| Sep 06, 2005 | Performing upgrade of LANSA for iSeries causes objects to not be restored depending on system value QALWOBJRST Errors upgrading LANSA for iSeries if system value QALWOBJRST has been set not to allow restore of objects that adopt authority |
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| Feb 14, 2005 | Do you need to recompile LANSA for iSeries programs when field level validation has changed? When you make a file definition change in LANSA there is a series of considerations to cover |
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| Nov 29, 2004 | How to Call a LANSA Function from a 3GL How to call a LANSA function from a C program (3GL) in LANSA for Windows and LANSA for iSeries |
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| Nov 29, 2004 | Calling a C Function with arguments from LANSA This is a simple example of calling a C program from a LANSA RDML function |
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| Nov 01, 2004 | How can I improve the performance of a function that reads specific records from a large file? A simple function to select specific records from a large file (48,000,000 records) is taking on average 1 hour and 10 minutes to execute in batch |
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| Aug 18, 2004 | V9.1 | How can I use the MAIL_ADD_ATTACHMENT BIF in LANSA for the iSeries? Format of the Attachment Path when using the MAIL_ADD_ATTACHMENT Built-in Function in LANSA for the iSeries |
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| Jun 11, 2004 | How to find out which TP jobs relate to a given user Easy way to quickly find which job belongs to particular users |
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| Mar 01, 2004 | How do I break a field out into multiple fields based on type with LANSA? How do I break a field out into multiple fields based on type? In RPG I would use a data structure. How do I do this in LANSA? |
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| Oct 13, 2003 | Batch import of HTML - All parameters are necessary How to submit a batch import of HTML |
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| Aug 04, 2003 | E-mailing an iSeries Spooled File How to use Client Access to email Spooled Files |
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| Apr 14, 2003 | Unable to display routing table information When attempting to display LANSA Configuration information, it may fail with a message |
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| Feb 03, 2003 | How does iSeries check authority The sequence of authority checking used by the iSeries |
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| Jan 13, 2003 | How to use PERMFILOVR Information and examples on how to use LANSA's Permanent File Overrides facility |
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| Sep 09, 2002 | Allowing IE to browse the IFS like it was a normal Windows folder What you need to do in your iSeries TCP configuration so that IE5.5+ can directly access the IFS like it was a windows folder |
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| Jul 29, 2002 | Imports issue where QCCSID value is not a valid default value for QLANGID For LANSA import jobs which either default to or are run under job CCSID (Coded Character Set Identifier) 65535, the data may be converted and then displayed incorrectly |
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| Jun 17, 2002 | Large e-mail attachments are not received properly when using the LANSA email Integration BIFs Large email attachments are not received properly, corrupting and splitting the e-mail message. There is POP attribute that needs to be changed to avoid this situation |
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| Feb 20, 2002 | New System Variable *VISUAL_LANSA A new system variable called *VISUAL_LANSA has been introduced to distinguish between program execution on LANSA for iSeries and Visual LANSA |
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| Apr 16, 2001 | Allow fields greater than 256 characters This approach can be applied for fields up to 9999 characters long and even for any non-supported data types | ||
| Archived | V10 | The 6th option for Configure task tracking Once EPC703 has been applied, you will now have an extra option in the Configure task tracking in System Partition Definition screen |
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| Archived | V10 EPC721 | Enhancement in EPC721 to allow new Content Types also allows embedding Images in “text/html” Email Content Images can now be embedded in an email after applying EPC721 to LANSA for the Web V10 |
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| Archived | Archived - How do I create a LANSA save file for use with an earlier OS400 version? Cannot use or display LANSA-generated save files that are created on an earlier OS version |
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| Archived | Archived - *DBMS_RECORD_LOCKED must be used only if there was an I/O error The *DBMS_RECORD_LOCKED variable is used to detect if the previous I/O operation (e.g. SELECT or FETCH) failed because the record was locked during the allowable wait time |
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| Archived | AS/400 TCP/IP ports Some LANSA for Web connection problems may be related to the inappropriate use of TCP/IP Ports |
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| Archived | The meaning of the Task ID states Task Ids can have 4 states. This is a summary of the meaning of these states |
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| Archived | Large number of fields in a file affect performance The number of fields in a file can affect application performance but only if very large numbers are involved |
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| Archived | About LANSAs Multilingual support Changing partition multilingual attributes |
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| Archived | Using "Optimize for Remote Communications" Functions compiled on a process with the "Optimize for Remote Communications" flag set to 'Y' can cause unexpected results |
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| Archived | File Security consideration under LANSA File Security considerations under LANSA Authority and Ownership |
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| Archived | Object Authority handling under LANSA LANSA uses adopted authority to handle access to OS/400 objects both defined by LANSA and outside of LANSA |
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| Archived | Unlock parameter listener job To minimize the dependency of the Listener Job on the LANSA system from which it is started, use the optional parameter PARM01(*UNLOCK) |
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| Archived | Using Variable Length Fields in LANSA LANSA allows the use of Variable Length fields using these steps |
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| Archived | Null-capable field support in LANSA LANSA for the AS/400 is capable of handling Null-capable fields containing null values for both input and output in externally described database files (i.e OTHER files) |
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| Archived | Command to create LANSA Listener subsystem Creating the LANSA listener within its own subsystem by creating a user defined command and CL program to create the needed objects |
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| Archived | EPC Logging on your AS/400 The DC@FEP file will contain details of which EPCs have been added to the LANSA system |
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| Archived | An expansion on the Group Job/Attention Key theme This example provides a flexible way of using the attention program facility by making the command executed VARIABLE |
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| Archived | Bulk load of OTHER files New optional facility allows the definitions of a number of OTHER files to be made known to LANSA |
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| Archived | Making multiple AS/400 files known to LANSA automatically A handy tool to import multiple non-LANSA files into the LANSA Repository |
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| Archived | Making multiple AS/400 files known to LANSA automatically A handy tool to import multiple non-LANSA files into the LANSA Repository |
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| Archived | User defined RDML Built-in function It is possible to write user defined built in functions via a LANSA function instead of via a 3GL program |
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| Archived | Positioning in a file using the SELECT command Using the number of keys parameter of the SELECT command instead of *STARTKEY WHERE( ) and defining work fields to save the values of the key fields |
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| Archived | Dynamic help text maintenance UPDATE or ADD Help Text to fields within an application whilst the application was running |
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| Archived | The effect of using triggers to evaluate virtual fields A SELECT with a WHERE condition is evaluated slightly differently on LANSA for iSeries and LANSA Open (and LANSA Client) |
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| Archived | Seat based licences How do the seat based licences like Dnn work, what is checked, how many sessions are available, how many log on's are permitted? |
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| Archived | When and what do I re-compile? When and what do I re-compile? |
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| Archived | V7.5 | Impact analysis example Display all functions which have been exported since a date |
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| Archived | Joining files using OPNQRYF An example of how to join files using OPNQRYF | ||
| Archived | Avoid recursive calls in LANSA functions when using ATTN-key LANSA ATTN program for LANSA |
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| Archived | Warning about Fetch fields Be careful when using parameters *ALL, *ALL_REAL and *ALL_VIRT - only use them when necessary |
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| Archived | Converting an S/36 DIRECT file into a LANSA file Steps to convert an S/36 DIRECT file into a LANSA file |
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| Archived | Printing in A4 format in LANSA for the AS/400 A printed document might not have A4 format although the printer file has A4 format in its definition |
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| Archived | The Developer Services facility How can "Developer Services" be used to facilitate communications during testing between developers and testers? |
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| Archived | Formatting output in LANSA Sometimes, after creating all necessary logical files when writing an application on the AS/400, a "special" requirement arises for some other more specific or generic searching requirement |
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| Archived | Using multilingual definitions in multilingual environments Multilingual definitions for a particular language should be typed in using a display device and keyboard descriptions set for that language |
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| Archived | Accessing remote files from LANSA using DDM Accessing remote files from LANSA using the OS/400 Distributed Data Management (DDM) facility |
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| Archived | Column heading width on screens and reports in multilingual partitions When adding a field to the screen or a report, the column headings are wider than necessary. This could be caused by the column heading widths in other languages. |
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| Archived | Using Hex colors to give LANSA fields color It is possible in LANSA for the AS/400 to use hex codes to give the value of fields specific colors |
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| Archived | V6.5 | Using missing parameters on the LANSA SUBMIT command The LANSA SUBMIT command does not have all the possible parameters that the AS/400 CL command SBMJOB has. However, all the possible extra parameters can be defined via a special User Exit Program |
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| Archived | Using 10 character filenames The permanent file override facility gives the ability to use files that are not standard LANSA file names |
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| Archived | Writing your own User Defined Built-in Functions In an RDML function standard supplied built-in functions (BIF's) can be used to manipulate dates, numeric and character strings, etc. BIF's can also be written by the user |
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| Archived | Finding the length of a string in LANSA A couple of different ways to find out how many characters there are in a string |
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| Archived | What is Function Routing in LANSA? Function Routing allows the automatically (re)routing of invocations of a function to another function at execution time without changing a program |
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| Archived | Conditioning the execution of virtual code Conditioning the execution of virtual code based on whether a field has been requested in a LANSA I/O command. This can improve the execution of an I/O module |
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| Archived | Easy way to find out your LANSA/AD release and PC level This program provides an easy way to to find out which release and PC level you have for LANSA for the AS/400 |
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| Archived | Using PANEL_IDs to help remote problem solving in LANSA code What are those funny numbers that appear in the top left hand corner of screens in LANSA Applications? |
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| Archived | Reducing the size of LANSA applications Functions compiled with observability and debug are much bigger than those compiled with these compile settings turned off |
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| Archived | Automating mass compilations in LANSA Mass Compilation Example: Compiling I/O modules with observability intact, when moving from CISC to RISC |
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| Archived | Suggested tips for improving an application's performance Tips for improving application performance |
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| Archived | Creating Help Text using MS-WORD and transferring it into LANSA/AD It is possible to create help text using MS-WORD and then transfer this help text into LANSA for the AS/400 on the AS/400 |
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| Archived | Advanced Function Printing (AFP) Advanced Function Printing (AFP) |
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| Archived | New Keywords on DC@OSVEROP data area There are several new keywords on the DC@OSVEROP data area |