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In AS400, it is convenient to know where all your data is distributed as well as how much disk space you have consumed and have leftover to use. If you want easy access to all this information at hand, all you need to do is run a simple command.

 

To get your AS400 Disk space usage, use the following command in your green screen command line:

 

Dspsyssts

 

On the right-hand top corner, you will see the sizes listed. You can run this command as often as you need to keep track of your disk space usage on a daily (or periodic) basis.

Typically when you click on an LBI report that’s been setup on the dashboard, it will show you data of the last generated instance.  To add a refresh is incredibly easy.

 

First login to LBI and go to the dashboard you want to modify a report on. When you click it, you’ll see something like:

To allow the report to refresh data, select the plus sign >> Edit

You’ll see a URL field, all you need to do is add &Refresh=True to the end of the URL and click save.

The URL may look something like this:

FSRemote%3Ffsid%3DRS%3ARS-COMPANY%20Reporting%20Services%3A25%26

Now add %Refresh=True at the end of it like below:

FSRemote%3Ffsid%3DRS%3ARS-COMPANY%20Reporting%20Services%3A25%26&Refresh=True

 

Done! Now the report will always pull up the parameters (if any) so you can see the latest data:

If your organization still heavily relies on LBI today, which is harder and harder to find individuals who support it, we recommend organizations look into hiring a Lawson consultant team who offer managed services at a fixed monthly rate.

These Lawson teams have a wider range of expertise and knowledge and are ideal for larger organizations but also are great for smaller ones that don’t need a dedicated Lawson employee on-site that may only be an expert in 2-3 portions of Lawson.

If your Lawson System Foundation software is installed on an AS/400 and your recdef jobs are submitted, but just sit in an active status. View the examine log.

If the Examine Log/joblog for the batch job that was kicked off due to the schedule in RECDEF says this:

BEGIN: Recurring Job Submitted:  Day Month XX   TimeStamp

      Step1:   xx999 Started. . . . . . :  Day Month XX   TimeStamp

**Creating .prt and .dtl files

 

To understand the solution you need to be an IBM i admin that understands how to check and change both ownership and permission on files within the IFS directory.

Check your LAWDIR/Productline/IBM files for the application productline (ex. “lawapp10”, “logan” and for the “gen” productline.) They should be owned by LAWSON and both LAWSON and *PUBLIC should have *RW and all data and object authorities, except for “Execute” on the object authorities.

If they are not set that way, change the authority of the two IBM files to match what was just described above. Next take these steps:

1. call lawenv
2. qsh
3. dbadmin idleAll (this will stop your idle cdriver jobs in the subsystem for this environment)

Updating the Infor OS certificate is an important housekeeping task and it is as simple as adding your new certificate to the binding on the InforOS websites.  There are two website where this can be performed. The two websites in question are InforPlatformBackend and InforPlatformUI. Follow these quick steps below to easily update your Infor OS Certificate.

First, you will need to navigate to these two sites in IIS. Once there, next you will need to edit the bindings and select your new certificate. After you select your new certificate simply perform an iisreset, and you are all done!

 

Hope this article was helpful!