greggieFEN@gmail.com wrote:
> Is their a built in function to encrypt a full system save (i.e. go
> save). If not can anyone recomend any third party applications.
>
Not yet available. You have at least 2 choices :

1) IBM offers a tape drive with built-in encryption function. U must
stick to this tape drive for save and restore.

2) 3rd-party encryption s/w for saving data. Go to www.google.com and
do a search with keywords "iseries encryption save" or some such.
>
>
> Thanks for your help. I am very new to as/400 and my company is too
> cheap to buy some books on the subject for me (though they are sending
> me to classes in January...go figure).
>
Some good resources for iSeries technical knowledge are at these web
sites:

http://www.as400pro.com/servlet/sql.viewCats?Type=T

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhgindex.html

http://www.mcpressonline.com/ and look in "Feature Sections" on the
left side of the page or do an advanced search

Satid S.

greggieFEN@gmail.com wrote:
> Is their a built in function to encrypt a full system save (i.e. go
> save). If not can anyone recomend any third party applications.

what release are you? On the latest release, v5r4, you can save the
system to virtual tape and then encrypt somehow the IFS file that
contains the virtual tape save.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstract...7164.html?Open

>
> A second question is if we would like to exclude certain libraries
> during a system save is their a way to have the built in save program
> read from a file the list we would like to exclude (it is rather
> lenghty)? I have figured out how to manually type them in right before
> the save but i was hoping for something a little more fancy!

you can have a CL program that reads the file, then have your CL
program compose the SAVLIB command string, then call QCMDEXC to run
that command string. If you need help with the CL code just ask. This
is a pretty standard way of doing what you want.

-Steve

Thank you guys so much for the quick and informative responses.


Steve Richter wrote:
> greggieFEN@gmail.com wrote:
> > Is their a built in function to encrypt a full system save (i.e. go
> > save). If not can anyone recomend any third party applications.
>
> what release are you? On the latest release, v5r4, you can save the
> system to virtual tape and then encrypt somehow the IFS file that
> contains the virtual tape save.
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstract...7164.html?Open
>
> >
> > A second question is if we would like to exclude certain libraries
> > during a system save is their a way to have the built in save program
> > read from a file the list we would like to exclude (it is rather
> > lenghty)? I have figured out how to manually type them in right before
> > the save but i was hoping for something a little more fancy!
>
> you can have a CL program that reads the file, then have your CL
> program compose the SAVLIB command string, then call QCMDEXC to run
> that command string. If you need help with the CL code just ask. This
> is a pretty standard way of doing what you want.
>
> -Steve

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| Is their a built in function to encrypt a full system save (i.e. go
| save). If not can anyone recomend any third party applications.
|
| A second question is if we would like to exclude certain libraries
| during a system save is their a way to have the built in save
program
| read from a file the list we would like to exclude (it is rather
| lenghty)? I have figured out how to manually type them in right
before
| the save but i was hoping for something a little more fancy!
|
| Thanks for your help. I am very new to as/400 and my company is too
| cheap to buy some books on the subject for me (though they are
sending
| me to classes in January...go figure).


One thing to think about.

If there are hundreds of libs you may exceed the parameter size of a
single save lib command.

You can get around this by creating a program that uses the DSPOBJD
command to build a list of all lib objects and then save each in-turn
after checking if they are in your exclude list.

This can be easily done in CL by reading a join logical file linking
the library object description file with the exclude table using the
join default outer join.

Mike Sicilian

You might want to take a look at API QSRSAVO for selective saves. In
V5R4 API QSRRSTO was introduced for selective restores.

greggieFEN@gmail.com wrote:
> Is their a built in function to encrypt a full system save (i.e. go
> save). If not can anyone recomend any third party applications.
>
> A second question is if we would like to exclude certain libraries
> during a system save is their a way to have the built in save program
> read from a file the list we would like to exclude (it is rather
> lenghty)? I have figured out how to manually type them in right before
> the save but i was hoping for something a little more fancy!
>
> Thanks for your help. I am very new to as/400 and my company is too
> cheap to buy some books on the subject for me (though they are sending
> me to classes in January...go figure).
>


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