“How do I check the status of the System 21 (JBA/GEAC/INFOR) background jobs from an RPG program?“ I was asked to hack together a quick little routine to check the status of the System21 background jobs, for some specific web-service calls that were talking to an IBM i system running INFOR’s System21 ERP. Hmmm… That

Read More

The wonderful IBM RPGLE programming language: What is Chain(N) and Chain(NE) Overview For file I/O requests in RPG (ie: Chain, Read, Reade, Setll, etc) we can add some options using (N) – No Lock (E) – Error Logging (NE) – No Lock and Error Logging Writing code in RPG the CHAIN operation code is used

Read More

I’ve been a fan of talk radio for many years. I enjoy listening to all kinds of talk radio ranging from Political to Theatrical, from Religious to Sports. I regularly drive long road trips and listening to an engaging conversation on the radio keeps my gray matter buzzing. Even when I disagree with someones point

Read More

RPG is not a Rocket Propelled Grenade RPG2 is that Logic Cycle Thing RPG3 is the System/38 version RPG400 is the revamped RPG3 that came with AS400 ​everything after that is RPG… unless its ILE then its RPGLE or sometimes RPG4, or its free format so its RPGLE /Free… or its SQL so its RPGSQL

Read More