In this document you will find two procedures to obtain the versions of the products installed on the iSeries platform
Follow the steps below in order to retrieve all products versions.
If everything went fine, a screen like this will be shown:
In order to get an iSeries product version, a command must be executed on iSeries side. It's mandatory to run the commands from a 5250 terminal emulator.
Product | Command |
VISUAL Message Center (iSeries Modules) | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(B_DETECTOR/JOBVPK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
Nicelink | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(T4NICELINK/T4NICELINK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
Performance Manager (VCJ y VCP) | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(JOBCTL/JOBVPK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
Debugging Agent (VISUAL Debugger) | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(VISUALW/JOBVPK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
Supporting Agent (VISUAL Support) | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(VSCREEN/JOBVPK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
Data Monitor for iSeries | DSPDTAARA DTAARA(T4DATAMON/JOBVPK) OUTFMT(*HEX) |
The result could be a strange number. In order to know the actual version, take the first three characters after the last 0 and convert it from hexadecimal to decimal.
To check the OS400 version you can run this command: DSPDTAARA QUSRSYS/QSS1MRI.
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