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Today IBM has announced the TR8 for IBM i V7R1 to be available on June 6. 2014. You can find detailed descriptions about the new features on developerworks. 

I think we will see an announcement of the new Base Version V7R2 with many new functions at the end of April or in early may. So stay tuned for the latest news.

On IBM i every object has an owner. Normally the owner of an object is the creator of the object. When you want to delete an user with DLTUSRPRF which is still the owner of objects you will get a CPF2215 error that the deletion of the user is not allowed. You can view all objects an user owns with  "WRKOBJOWN USERPRF(username)". One possible solution for the CPF2215 is to change the owner of all objects in the WRKOBJOWN overview to another user.

But there is a much easier way to solve this problem. Add the parameter "OWNOBJOPT(*CHGOWN newowner)" to the DLTUSRPRF command and all owned objects will be transfered to the newowner automatically.

An example - the admin want to delete "usera" and want to transfer all objects to "userb":

DLTUSRPRF USRPRF(usera) OWNOBJOPT(*CHGOWN userb)

I do not know if i was the last on earth who was still using a Twinax Console to operate an i/5, but today i have migrated  succesfully our twinax console to a LAN Console. I had to do the following steps for the migration:

Locate the LAN Console Port on your system. For our Modell 520 it is the T5 port. If you are unsure check the Power Systems info center for informations how to locate the Lan Console port. Check with wrkhdwrsc *cmn  and wrkcfgsts *lin that there is no active line description configured for this ethernet port. The Lan Console port cannot be shared with other Ethernet lines on your system.

Then sign in to the System Service Tools with strsst



Choose Option 8 "work with service tools user IDs and Devices"


Choose option 4 "Configure service tools LAN adapter"


Change all values on the "select console" so that the match the screenshot and the press "Enter" to continue.

Press F11 to go to configure your new service LAN Adapter.


Fill in a static IP Address for the LAN Adapter and the default gateway and subnet mask matching your LAN configuration. As an Hostname for service tools you can use every symbolic name you want for example "SYSCONSOLE1". This IP address habe to be unused and must not match any IP Address of other servers in your network. Then press "F7" to store your configuration and go back with multiple "F3 presses to the start screen of the SST.

Normally you have to make an IPL to activate your new console configuration. But if you are not able to IPL your machine you can try the following steps to activate the LAN Console without an IPL.

Start SST with STRSST if you are not already in the SST Screen.


Select Option 1 "Start a service tool"


Select Option 4 "Display/Alter/Dump"


Select Option 1 "Display/Alter storage"


 Select Option 2 "Licensed Internal Code (LIC) data"


 Press Page Down to go to the second menu of "Select Lic Data".


Select Otion 14 "Advanced Analysis" and page down in the List of the Macros till you see the "OPCONSOLE" macro.


Select the "OPCONSOLE" macro with "1"


Fill in "RESTART" as the option and press enter to run the macro. After that you can leave the SST.

Now you can try your new LAN console on your local workstation. Start the "Operations Console" from the i Access start menu.
When everything is configured correctly the operations console will discover the console port automatically and you can connect to the console of your system.

After the connection has been established you have to sign in with a SST user. Be aware that the username and password is case sensitive.