What is the best IBMi (AS400) 5250 Terminal Emulator? The IBM i System (aka i5 aka iSeries aka AS/400) uses something called 5250 to stream its data to a terminal, often called a green screen. You’ve seen this clunk old terminals in black and white scifi movies – well we still use them. Kind of.

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SQL Tables with Indexes and Views are faster than DDS Phsyicals and Logicals. #HONEST SQL is a wonderful beast for quickly getting data from huge tables (aka Files). The trouble with SQL is that it’s so very simple to use; programmers get lazy and sometimes forget to do the analysis to make it as simple

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UPDATE JUNE 2018 Sadly FIELDSTONE stopped supporting gSyncit V4 when they released a new version, cunningly called gSyncit V5. Now if I want to continue using this to sync my devices I have to pay again! Which sucks 🙁 I now use the new kid on the block OUTLOOK GOOGLE CALENDAR SYNC which keeps my

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I installed the first Technology Preview (aka Beta) for the new version of IBM i Access (aka Client Access) a few months ago. I really liked it, but was working on a clients project which had different standards for TN5250 and a few other things. So, to align with my team mates I worked with

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TURNOVER TUTORIAL No, I will not be teaching you how to bake a #APPLETURNOVER We will be delving into the slightly less delicious world of software change management for RPG Programmers and IBM i Software Developers. I’ve been working on a freelance gig for some time now and the client uses Turnover (by Softlanding /

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