1 Before You Start

LANSA Open System Utilities

1. Before You Start

The Open System Utilities facility is a library of utilities that allow experienced developers to manipulate their LANSA for iSeries environment in a less controlled, but more powerful, manner. They enable global or system level manipulations of a LANSA for iSeries environment.

Before you attempt to install and use the Open System Utilities, it is important that you read the remainder of this guide to find out about actually using these utilities and the special warnings that apply.

Before you start using the Open System Utilities, be sure to review:

1.1 Conditions of Use

1.2 Integrity

1.3 The Golden Rule - Backups