Introducing the Tidal Automation Adapter for OS/400

Note: IBM has renamed the AS/400-OS/400 product line to the iSeries. The adapter continues to work on the iSeries family. This guide refers to the product line as OS/400.

Creating an OS/400 job within the TA is similar to creating any other TA job. The differences are in the configuration prior to creating OS/400 jobs, and in the additional information required for a complete OS/400 job definition.

Minimum Software Requirements

Note: The minimum software requirement for the TA OS/400 adapter implementation is OS/400 versions V5 R2-R4, V6.

Refer the TA Compatibility Matrix for a full list of requirements.

Prerequisites

There are different authorities required depending on whether the user is submitting the job or having the job submitted for them.

Run these services on the OS/400 machine:

  • Command

  • File

  • Print

  • Dataqueue

There are different authorities required depending on whether the user is submitting the job or having the job submitted for them.

A user defined on the OS/400 manages the connection to the OS/400 and submits jobs to run under different users. This user is strongly recommended to have QSECOFR authorities and be able to issue the SBMJOB command.

This user has:

  • *USE authority to the other user’s profile

  • *USE authority to the command specified in the Command parameter and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that command

  • *READ authority to the job description (JOBD) and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that job description

  • *USE authority to the job queue (JOBQ) and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that job queue

  • *USE and *ADD authority to the message queue (MSGQ) and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that message queue

  • *USE authority to the sort sequence table (SRTSEQ) and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that sort sequence table

  • *EXECUTE authority to all auxiliary storage pool (ASP) device descriptions in the initial ASP group (INLASPGRP)

The user that the job is being submitted for has the authorities:

  • *USE authority to the job description (JOBD)

  • *READ authority to the output queue (OUTQ) and *EXECUTE authority to the library containing that output queue

  • *USE authority to all auxiliary storage pool (ASP) device descriptions in the initial ASP group (INLASPGRP)

  • *USE authority to the library specified for the current library (CURLIB) parameter

  • *USE authority to all the libraries specified for the initial library list (INLLIBL) parameter

Connection Ports

This table provides the non-SSL ports that the OS400 adapter uses to communicate with the respective servers.

Non-SSL

Port Server

449

Server mapper

8472

Data Queue server

8473

File server

8474

Network print server

8475

Remote command or program call server

8476

Signon server