Wow! It’s December already! After a whirlwind year involving moving the whole family, two dogs and a pile of News 3x/400 magazines to this side of the pond I cant believe it’s nearly 2010 already. Two thousand nine has seen us settling into our new life in the US, focussing mainly on IBMi and I

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IBM i jobs comes in two flavours – INTERACTIVE which means that a user keying into a terminal and using the program interacting with the program code, or BATCH which means this program has been submitted and is expected to execute without any human interaction. The module below, INTERACT, determines whether your program is running

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Get the IBM i Operating System Version in IBM i CL There are lots of way of checking the operating system version on your IBM i Server. On your command line type DSPSFWRSC and with F11 you will see the Software Version of all the products installed on your iSeries. You could also use the

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IBM i – WebSphere Development Studio Client (RPG Programming Tool) is really quite Cool! I’ve just installed WDSC7.0 for the first time (/me ducks from the barrage of rotten fruit launched at him from the rowdy-RDi-crowd) and have almost had a religious experience with it. For years I’ve been feverishly hammering away in S.E.U. and

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