Have you been asked to add a part number as a barcode to an existing warehouse report? Does the report currently print as an old fashioned text based spool that looks like it came from the 1980’s? Is this program written in RPG? Is the Printer file defined in DDS? If the answer to these

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Jerry is a friendly chap, accomplished mechanic with great prices and swift work! It’s not often I endorse a local business but JR Mobile Mechanic in Charleston is awesome! Jerry is a thoroughly decent chap, punctual, professional, did the job with minimal fuss and cleaned everything up afterwards. Great job Jerry — you have a

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I’m in the final stages of a fun project writing web-services to interface INFOR System21 (on an IBM i aka AS400) with ACSIS Visitrack (on Windows Server), we are consuming (receiving) and serving (sending) all data in a standard alphameric layout But… as any RPG programmer will know… the conversion between alpha to numeric is

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Over at DRUMS THE WORD a new kid is on the block; the new kid is the old kid, but with a new coat on The King is dead – long live the King! Rob Litten and I have been working together over the last six months, between him in Hampshire (England) and me in

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Thanks to Mr Aaron Bartell for this excellent article on using GIT for controlling source code changes on IBM i. I’ve been doing this for a while on source code for PROJEX4i and have kept meaning to write a little blog about it. Aaron’s article nicely touches on the high-level concepts of GIT, it’s ease

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Over the last year I’ve been using SQL more and more for all my RPG file access needs. The more I use it the more I like it and I’m building my own little set of reusable components and settled in with some naming standard that work for me. I thought I would enter them

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