TURNOVER Client (aka Turnover GUI) Turnover (from Soft Landings Inc) is a pretty cool Software Change Management system running on iseries IBM i. The IBM i system is the Server. We connect to the IBM i TURNOVER SERVER from our device (laptop, desktop, mobile, etc) using software called TURNOVER CLIENT. Back in the bad old

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Can we find which Turnover Forms ran from a specific Turnover Application? The answer is ‘YES’ and you might find it’s easier than you thought. Using good old fashioned green screen menus (which in my case are white screens – but dont let that distract you) we can find this info quickly and easily. Here

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This is a pain not being able to see it in RPGNG (RPG Next Generation is an excellent RPG coding tool) but I still have to revert to things like PDM find all source members with specific descriptions against them…. For example: I want to see all RPG source code used for the ‘ABCDEFG’ project

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TUR3333 – No local Turnover system Defined This week I mainly been playing with Turnover V100…. Preparing TURNOVER V100 (Software Change Management tool for IBMi Systems) for a major application upgrade, adding the ability to use Turnover Forms for specifically deleting and/or moving objects from one environment (library) to another. In this case its because

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Apple Computer purchased a Cray supercomputer in the mid-1980s. According to Legend, Steve Jobs was Cray’s first and only walk-in customer. He arrived unannounced (so the story goes) at Cray headquarters in Mendota Heights, Minnesota and asked to speak to someone about buying a Cray. They nearly threw him out. It’s only slightly less eccentric

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Are you a latecomer to the Internet? Have you only recently upgraded from a green-screen 5250 terminal? Is the Internet a little intimidating to you? Don’t worry, you can become a Master of the Internet!

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HOUSTON, TX – Scientists rejoiced on Friday after learning NASA’s Phoenix Lander photographed what appeared to be evidence of life on Mars. At first inspection of the photo there seemed to be nothing remarkable about it. However, when magnified several times, it became clear there was something more than just rocks and sand on the

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🙂 Smile (-: User is left handed. %-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight. :*) User is drunk. [:] User is a robot. 😎 User is wearing sunglasses. B:-) Sunglasses on head. ::-) User wears normal glasses. B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses. 8:-) User is a little girl. :-)-8

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A new aid to rapid, almost magical, learning has made its appearance. Indications are such that, if it catches on, all the electronic gadgets will be so much junk. The new device is known as Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge. The developers usually call it by its initials, BOOK(tm). Many advantages are claimed over the old-style

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Rochester, MN – As you know, IBM is a politically correct and an environmentally conscious company. Because of the success of the new System i and i on Power systems there has been a growing surplus of the old model AS/400s. With the concerns of overburdened landfills and in this age of recycling and protecting

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Mountain View, CA — Sun Microsystems today filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the island of Java* over the use of Sun’s Java* trademark. Responding to criticism that the island has been called Java* for centuries, Sun lawyer Frank Cheatham said “Yeah, and in all that time they never filed for a trademark. They deserve

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This week I have been mainly using ERPAL. If you have no point of reference with ‘The Fast Show’ then just ignore this and read on… So, I’ve been playing with Drupal and the wonderful ERPAL Project Management module this week – I found an annoying problem where I thought I was caught between a

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