Wow, interesting! My first real job involved several as/400 machines. If the OP of this blog is reading here, you should try to get a program called "iSeries

Wow, interesting! My first real job involved several as/400 machines. If the OP of this blog is reading here, you should try to get a program called "iSeries client access". There are GUIs for administering a lot of the things now. It also comes with DB2 drivers and soforth.