Naughty Special Characters – from Dollars to Pounds. Another IBM I Developer was having this weird problem with an IFS file. Trying to figure out the code page problems with a file that had been emailed from a British IBM i Server. naughty special characters- Java and IBMi might get upset! When the Java QSHELL command

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I’m fuming at the ridiculous mixture of extremism and political correctness that is swamping social media regarding the evil killings in Belgium yesterday. On the morning of 22 March 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings occurred in Belgium: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators

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So, just when I thought I had seen it all, I got this error message “Unable to move file into a new library” when I was just moving a file to a new library in my lovely IBM i System. Nothing weird about this file (or so I thought) and I was just going a

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RUNSQLSTM – Run SQL Statement When you do the RUNSQLSTM to create your SQL Objects – Do not qualify library names but use the Turnover variables just like you would define PDM variables: Turnover uses the DFTRDBCOL column “&LI” to populate the other *library* variables. Most shops I’ve been to use QSQLSRC to store the

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