{"id":892,"date":"2016-02-22T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/?p=892"},"modified":"2021-08-23T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:08:43","slug":"as400-mass-object-owner-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.netexpertise.eu\/en\/systems\/as400\/as400-mass-object-owner-change.html","title":{"rendered":"AS400 Mass Object Owner Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Change Owner Through IBM i Terminal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There are many ways to change an object owner on IBM i. With CHGOBJOWN for a single object, or WRKOBJOWN then press 9 for each object if you want to start with all objects belonging to somebody.
Changing ownership of thousands of objects this way will be very painful and time consuming!
 
Specialised websites like itjungle<\/a> suggest quicker ways like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHGOWN OBJ('\/qsys.lib\/mylib.lib\/*.*') NEWOWN(new_owner) RVKOLDAUT(*YES)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
which is a good way to change the owner of all objects within the same library.
 
But there is more powerful if you’re not against using QSHELL or PASE (run QSH or CALL QP2TERM), or connect with SSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advanced Ownership Commands in QSH\/PASE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
You can move into the library’s directory with cd. Always append .LIB to your library<\/p>\n\n\n\n
cd \/QSYS.LIB\/MYLIB.LIB<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 
You can easily count the number of objects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ ls -1 | wc -l\n    6228<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 
Display all objects owner with ls<\/em> and more<\/em> to display one page at a time (can be slow if loads of objects)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ ls -l | more\ntotal 190672\ndrwx---rwx    2 owner    0             28672 Jan  5 10:37 $BUL100.FILE\ndrwx---rwx    2 owner    0             20480 Jan  5 10:37 $BUL200.FILE\n[...]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
 
Change owner for all objects is as easy as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
chown new_owner *.*<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You can also be more specific with *.FILE or MY_*.PRG.
 
And this is where it gets interesting. You can change all objects that have no owner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
find . -nouser | xargs chown newowner<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Use with care, read on…
 
You can also change all objects belonging to somebody in particular<\/p>\n\n\n\n
find . -user oldowner | xargs chown new owner<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
These commands can save you a lot of time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AS400 Username Length and Other Tips<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
find<\/em> will also search in subdirectories.
 
You may get an unknown username error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ chown lgusername AABL01WC.PGM\nchown: lgusername is an unknown username.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You need to get the user id in his profile and use that number instead, if the username length is greater than 8 characters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ chown 1073 AABL01WC.PGM<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
See that note<\/a> from IBM. You’re better off setting all usernames with 8 characters or less in iSeries.
 
Knowing the username length problem, the command “find . -nouser” will also return files\/objects belonging to 9 or 10 character long profiles! Shame IBM didn’t set the username max length to 10 as well in PASE.
 
One last piece of advice: connect via SSH<\/a> for a bigger terminal window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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