From AS/400 to iSeries to System i to IBM i on Power
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IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
UPDATE JULY 2020 – IBM CHANGED THE RULES AND NO LONGER OFFER THIS SERVICE TO ALL DEVELOPERS 🙁 Since I wrote this blog way back in 2016, IBM have changed their minds and now only offer the “TRY an IBM i ” service to Business partners. But fear not — If the phrase “Free IBM …
For any RPG programmer, writing RPGLE code (sometimes called RPG4) is fun. But, upgrading older RPG programs to the latest free form program layout is even more fun! The joy experienced when the Project is to “Modernize RPG” always puts an inane grin on my face. So lets look at a simple example: Get Sysname …
Back in the olden days – RPG was this column based thing that looked magical and quite unlike any other programming language. But, it’s a new age and RPG has evolved, added a sprinkle of ILE pixie dust and now lets us code fully backwards compatible programm calls in a much neater format free’d from …
Upgrade old RPG source code — aka refactoring — is a fun past time There are frequent little code snippets that I refactor over and over again. Some look similar but some look very different in modern language style. It’s perhaps worth documenting them in case someone else is trying to figure out alternative ways …
Episode 2 – AAAAAAARRRRGHGHGHGHGHHH!!!! After two weeks of swearing, mumbling, installing, deleting, reinstalling, tweaking, swearing some more, leaving to drink a beer, coming back and reinstalling, purging, clearing caches, swearing, going offline for a few days, returning, reinstalling, upgrading, purging, clearing, tweaking, reinstalling, swearing some more… I decided that Drupal8 just isnt quite ready for …
Hi, my name is Nick Litten and I am Openly Secular Perhaps openly-atheist would better describe my outlook. I was raised in a Christian household. In my mid-teens my personal coming of age process started when I started questioning, reviewing and critically thinking about anything/everything I was being taught at school and home to decide …