What Software does every IBM i Software Developer need? Last week I was asked to help the Network Team to create a pc-image for a new windows rollout to refresh the software builds for the IBM i Developers and other IT Techies. It’s an exciting time at my client’s site… with the haggle looking flustered

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GUNNAR RPG – excellent for RPG Programmers My first memories of wearing glasses were from my pre-teens; my Mum taking me down the local opticians to collect my big brown plastic NHS specs. Some seriously horrible, big brown plastic things. This led to years of school ground taunting being called a speccy-four-eyes and finally refusing

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AS400 needs to be modernized …seems to be the chant of the moment. But I put it to you that it is not the Computer System that needs modernizing: It is the applications that run on the system… and more importantly the *expectations* of the users and developers that need modernizing. Most IBM midrange systems

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This week I be mainly listening to: Music… schmoozic! When I’m programming and need some musical background sounds, I tend to prefer acoustic tinkering, mellow electronica or even a dose of classical from time to time. I simply reach for Pandora and let it do its magic. But when its a voice I want to

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Retrieve the Jobs Program Call Stack – RPGLE Example The RPG IV provided in this tip uses a simpler method to provide this function. The program sends messages up the call stack one at a time (to a maximum of 10 entries) until the top is reached. For each send, a retrieve is also performed

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IBM RPG is a lovely language. RPGLE (as the latest version is known) has got some heritage. Some might say its an old language, but I say it’s kept young by its constantly evolving syntax! Testing numeric values has evolved over years, lets look at two examples. The current version of RPGLE (IBM i V7R1 at

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