In my ongoing mission to use SQL rather than the older style direct file IO (which the IBM-i world knows as DDS) – I’ve found lots of improvements and things that I really like about SQL in general. But, one of the confusions for me is remembering the SQL’style of describing its functions. In DDS

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RPG Programming Standards? “RPG Programming Standards” have been debated since the invention of the wheel. With an entire generation of RPG programmers evolving from the early days of System/3x column based RPG code to modern free flowing web format code the adoption of a simple clean programming layout standard has been a mythical quest. Old

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More questions about adopting authority on IBM i Systems. So lets #discuss 😉 Adopt User Authority at Runtime Question: I have a batch job which is run by the user but needs to use a file with security denied to the user. Somewhere I heard or read about adopt authority, which would allow the job

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I was reading an interesting thread on Linkedin this morning, discussing another article about the much loved AS/400. The basic storyline is (a) some chap says the AS/400 is a really neat computer and he’s very pleased to have worked on it for many years (b) other chap says “its not called an AS/400” anymore (c)

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