Boost your productivity with PDM User Defined Options PDM’s user-defined options can enhance your productivity by reducing the need to key frequently used commands. This article offers some practical tips on how to implement user-defined options into your programming environment. PDM’s predefined options allow you to perform various tasks against libraries, objects, and members. But

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So, an old colleague of mine just asked me: “Nick, I’m going to need your help here, it occurred to me that we don’t have a plan for backing up those Vendor Schedules we turned into pdf’s on the DLS a while back. QDLS is easy but IFS, is it just the same thing really

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So, I’m sitting here in Starbucks mentally groaning at the weakness of the Wifi (but not my Grande, quad shot, low fat milk, 2 pump caramel latte) and I see a mailshot from the chaps (and chappette) at System i Developer announcing they have launched a new blog. Hosted by their own IBM i Power

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Both commands will suck in program source code from a copybook – typically stored in QCPYLESRC. But there is one big difference between how the compile directives work in RPGLE and SQLRPGLE programs : in RPG ILE programs the /copy directive is expanded by sql preprocessor, but /include does not get expanded by SQLRPGLE code.

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The Full Boris This damn problem has been going on forever. I’m sick of it. Sick sick sick bleeuuuuurgh! So come on people… someone out there must have a solution? It’s a totally weird starting problem but at least its now showing a repetitive solution. So lets go through it in clear English (well as

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Having Extension Problems? Viagra isnt helping? Then you have come to the right place. If you are seeing compatibility errors, perspective crashes or white screen of death when trying to open Turnover from within WDSC then this might just help. I’ve had a horrible time trying to get WDSC7 Turnover Perspective working when using the

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I am angrier than a very Angry Bird. Boris the Landrover is once again proving that it can refuse to start in nearly every State in the USA… What makes it worse is that last Friday – I just got it back from the Garage who happily told me the problem was fixed. “A new

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IBM i TURNOVER Software Change Management Turnover (from Soft Landings Inc) is a pretty cool Software Change Management system running on ISERIES *cough* IBM i. NOTICE FOR SOFTLANDING SYSTEMS You are marketing your Change Management Product as ‘Turnover for iSeries V100’. But IBM no longer sell the iSeries systems. In fact, IBM haven’t sold this

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Just like Lazarus, Boris lives! After last weeks engine death – well kind of choking spluttering whimpering suicide – I waited for the AAA recovery truck and had Boris truck to a local garage that foolishly admitted to working on Landrover. All the time thanking the Gods that I signed up for AAA car recovery

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