This topic lists the iSeries™ books and topics that offer additional information about database file management.
Plan, installation, and migration
- The i5/OS™ globalization topic provides the data processing manager, system operator and manager, application programmer, end user, IBM® marketing representative, and system engineer with information required to understand and use the national language support function on the iSeries server. This topic prepares the iSeries user for planning, installing, configuring, and using iSeries national language support (NLS) and multilingual support of the iSeries server. It also provides an explanation of the database management of multilingual data and application considerations for a multilingual system.
- Local
Device Configuration
provides the system operator or system administrator
with information about how to do an initial local hardware configuration and
how to change that configuration. It also contains conceptual information
for device configuration, and planning information for device configuration
on the 9406, 9404, and 9402 System Units.
Application development
- ADTS/400: Character Generator Utility provides the application programmer or system programmer with information about using the Application Development Tools character generator utility (CGU) to create and maintain a double-byte character set (DBCS) on the server.
- See ADTS for AS/400®: Source Entry Utility manual on the V5R1 Supplemental Manuals Web site
. This
book provides the application programmer or system programmer with information
about using the Application Development Tools source entry utility (SEU) to
create and edit source members.
System management
- Backup and Recovery provides the system programmer with information to plan a backup and recovery strategy. Also included are procedures to implement your backup and recovery strategy, how to recover from disk unit failures, and how to recover from a site loss.
- The Work Management topic provides information about how to create and change a work management environment.
- iSeries Security
Reference provides the system programmer with information about planning, designing,
and auditing security. Includes information about security system values,
user profiles, and resource security.
Communications and connectivity
- ICF Programming provides
the application programmer with the information needed to write application
programs that use iSeries communications
and ICF files. It also contains information about data description specifications
(DDS) keywords, system-supplied formats, return codes, file transfer support,
and programming examples.
Program enablers
- DDS concepts provides the application programmer with detailed descriptions of the entries and keywords needed to describe database files (both logical and physical) and certain device files (for displays, printers, and ICF) external to the user's programs.
- Database Programming provides the application programmer or system programmer with a detailed discussion of the iSeries database organization, including information about how to create, describe, and manipulate database files on the system.
- Application
Display Programming provides information about creating and maintaining screens
for applications, creating online help information, and working with display
files on the iSeries server.
- Printing provides information about how to understand and control printing: printing elements and concepts, printer file support, print spooling support, printer connectivity, advanced function printing, and printing with personal computers.
- Tape Files provides information about creating and maintaining tape device files.
- The CL programming topic provides a wide-ranging discussion of programming topics, including a general discussion of objects and libraries, control language (CL) programming, controlling flow and communicating between programs, working with objects in CL programs, and creating CL programs. Other topics include predefined and immediate messages and message handling, defining and creating user-defined commands and menus, and application testing, including debug mode, breakpoints, traces, and display functions.
- The Control language (CL) topic in the iSeries Information Center provides a description of the control language (CL) and its commands. Each command is defined including its syntax diagram, parameters, default values, and keywords.
System management
- Distributed data management provides the application programmer or system programmer with information about remote file processing. It describes how to define a remote file to i5/OS distributed data management (DDM), how to create a DDM file, which file utilities are supported through DDM, and the requirements of i5/OS DDM as related to other systems.