AS 400 Administration Online Course

Lesson 1 • Navigating the 5250 Interface

Introduces the 5250 green-screen terminal interface and basic navigation commands. Learners gain hands-on ability to move through menus and enter commands.

Lesson 2 • System Architecture Fundamentals

Explains the single-level storage model, object-based design, and integrated database. Provides the conceptual foundation for understanding system behaviour.

Lesson 3 • Hardware Components and Models

Identifies physical and logical hardware components including processors, memory, and I/O. Prepares learners to assess and manage hardware resources.

Lesson 4 • AS/400 History and Platform Overview

Covers the evolution from AS/400 to IBM i and its enterprise relevance. Establishes context for all subsequent administration tasks.

Lesson 1 • Object Authority and Ownership

Explains object ownership, public authority, and private authority grants. Learners can control who accesses specific system objects.

Lesson 2 • Special Authorities and User Classes

Details *ALLOBJ, *SECADM, *JOBCTL, and other special authorities. Learners assign least-privilege access appropriate to each role.

Lesson 3 • Group Profiles and Authorization Lists

Teaches group profile membership and authorisation list usage for scalable access control. Reduces administrative overhead for large user populations.

Lesson 4 • System Security Values

Covers QSECURITY level settings, password system values, and sign-on controls. Learners configure system-wide security policies aligned with organisational standards.

Lesson 1 • Saving and Restoring Objects

Covers SAVOBJ, RSTOBJ, SAVLIB, and RSTLIB commands for object-level backup. Learners protect and recover individual objects and libraries.

Lesson 2 • Creating and Managing Objects

Teaches creation, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting objects. Learners perform routine object lifecycle operations confidently.

Lesson 3 • Library List Management

Covers system, product, current, and user portions of the library list. Learners configure library lists to control object resolution for jobs.

Lesson 4 • Integrated File System Overview

Introduces the IFS directory structure alongside the traditional library system. Learners navigate and manage both namespaces effectively.

Lesson 1 • Monitoring and Managing Active Jobs

Uses WRKACTJOB, WRKJOB, and related commands to inspect and control running jobs. Learners diagnose and resolve job-related issues in real time.

Lesson 2 • Job Types and Job Descriptions

Distinguishes interactive, batch, autostart, and prestart jobs and their attributes. Learners understand job types before managing them.

Lesson 3 • Scheduling Jobs with Job Scheduler

Introduces the IBM i Job Scheduler for automating recurring batch tasks. Learners create and maintain scheduled job entries.

Lesson 4 • Subsystems and Routing Entries

Explains subsystem descriptions, routing entries, and job routing logic. Learners configure subsystems to direct jobs to appropriate resources.

Lesson 1 • Temporary Storage and Journal Management

Addresses temporary storage consumption and journal receiver management. Learners control storage growth from journaling and temporary objects.

Lesson 2 • Storage Thresholds and Alerts

Configures ASP storage thresholds and message queue alerts for capacity events. Learners proactively prevent storage-related system failures.

Lesson 3 • Auxiliary Storage Pool Concepts

Explains system ASP, user ASPs, and independent ASPs and their roles. Provides the foundation for all disk management decisions.

Lesson 4 • Disk Unit Management

Covers adding, removing, and configuring disk units within ASPs. Learners perform disk configuration changes safely.

Lesson 1 • TCP/IP Configuration on IBM i

Covers IP address assignment, interface creation, and route configuration. Learners establish basic network connectivity for the system.

Lesson 2 • Hardware Resource Configuration

Uses WRKHDWRSC and CFGDEV commands to manage hardware resource descriptions. Learners configure and vary on/off hardware devices.

Lesson 3 • System Values for Communication

Reviews system values that govern network behaviour, remote sign-on, and DDM access. Learners align communication settings with security policies.

Lesson 4 • IBM i Services and Ports

Identifies key IBM i services such as FTP, Telnet, and DDM and their port assignments. Learners enable and secure required network services.

Lesson 1 • Restore Procedures and Sequencing

Explains the correct restore sequence for licensed internal code, OS, and user data. Learners recover systems in the proper order to avoid failures.

Lesson 2 • Backup Strategy Design

Covers full, incremental, and cumulative backup approaches and their trade-offs. Learners design backup schedules aligned with recovery objectives.

Lesson 3 • High Availability and Replication Concepts

Surveys geographic mirroring, logical replication, and clustering options. Learners evaluate HA solutions appropriate for their environment.

Lesson 4 • Save Commands and Procedures

Details SAVSYS, SAVCFG, SAVLIB, and GO SAVE menu options. Learners execute complete system saves and verify their success.

Lesson 1 • Memory Pool and Paging Tuning

Covers machine pool, base pool, and user pool sizing and activity level settings. Learners reduce paging faults by tuning memory allocation.

Lesson 2 • Job Priority and Workload Balancing

Adjusts job run priority, time slice, and subsystem activity levels to balance workloads. Learners prevent low-priority jobs from starving critical processes.

Lesson 3 • Performance Data Collection

Uses Collection Services and STRPFRTRC to gather system performance data. Learners establish baselines for ongoing performance comparison.

Lesson 4 • Database and Query Performance

Addresses query optimisation, index creation, and SQL plan cache analysis. Learners improve database query response times on IBM i.