Display, View, Debug IBM i Data Queues  Data Queues are a common object type in many applications on IBM i Systems: They offer an easy way to queue up data to be read and processed. Easy to load, easy to read, and an easy way to handle sequential data. The only thing that I really

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“So, I have my name as a domain (www.NickLitten.com) and I want to use as a link to a specific node on the nicklitten.com main site – namely my RESUME page at (www.nicklitten.com/nick.litten)… I wonder how I can redirect a domain name to a specific page on my website?” Sounds like a simple question but

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This is an MC Press article but I am republishing because it’s exactly what I was asked to do today “Adding GPS with RPG”. Do you realize how much your business can do with GPS coordinates? No? Well, let me tell you. All of our applications’ databases hold hundreds if not thousands of addresses—from our

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AS400 Client Access is dead – long live IBM i ACS (Access Client Solutions) also known as: Who killed AS400 Client Access? Ask any AS400 programmer, iSeries Developer or IBM i Nerd and they will all tell you that good old “Client Access” is a pain in the arse! Client Access was introduced back in

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IBM has announced it’s latest round of “technology Refreshes” (aka PTF’s or service packs) for the IBM i operating system. A couple of nice tweaks to RPG are included in TR9 for IBM i 7.1 and TR1 for IBM i 7.2. For RPG, we will have enhanced ALIAS keyword support, and a streamlined DataStructure I/O

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