Upgrade RPG3 before its too late Many IBM Power i machines have been running steadily for years without business interruption. The hardware is incredibly resilient but development environments are in need of upgrading. The nature of the machine means applications written ten to twenty years ago are still running strong, so the need for change

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The IBM System i has a strong following, in part because companies have not generally been required to upgrade hardware or software on an arbitrary schedule. This means that many business are running legacy computer applications (for legacy read ‘old fashioned’) that have typically been running on green-on-black terminals for many years – “if it

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That will teach me. I just downloaded a seemingly harmless program called ‘Photo to Cartoon’ because i wanted to play around with some cartoon style avatars. Silly me. 🙁 Downloaded it and ran the install and it simply locked solid… *but* I noticed that my HDD activity light was going mental! Hmmm thought I… this

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Communications Security Question: I have IS staff in a number of remote sites that I would like to setup so that they can vary on and off their local devices. I thought that I would give them the rights to vary controllers and devices but not lines, tape drives or consoles. The easiest and fastest

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