During a meeting this morning, I was asked to provide a list of all Customer phone numbers for any System21 Customers that have ever been used on a Sales Order. Perhaps this sounds like a complicated request but… have no fear SQL is here!!! In reality, its a very simple thing to find and takes

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Turnover User Profiles So, we have IBM i User profiles defined and these users now want to use TURNOVER – so what next? Luckily, defining a user is very simple just launch Turnover (in this blog I use the Windows version running on Windows10) and click the machine you want to administer. TURNOVER FOR WINDOWS

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Want to disable RPGLE Live Parsing? “IBM Rdi” is arguably the best code editor for coding on IBM i. That’s pretty much a given. But, it’s still filled with little annoyances and things that make me groan. One, in particular, is the lagginess and freezing that comes when trying to edit very large programs using

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Autodesk Inventor problem with Win10 Eldest son has started a new high school class – Engineering. I’m excited for him because Engineering Science was one of the classes that I really enjoyed. Back in the day, we used slide rules, sketched on huge sheets of paper with hard pencils, used sin/cos/tan to calculate angles and

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Ever had to populate the *LDA in correct layout for JBA ERP Modules (aka GEAC aka Infor System21? Here is a simple RPGLE program knocked up to setup the *LDA priot to running a few little INFOR SYSTEM21 extraction routines: WEBSETLDA // ——————————————————————- // Service Name – WEBSETLDA // Function – Populate *LDA with Dummy

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IFS profile disabled? So, I have a love/hate relationship with IBM i’s integrated File System (IFS) Does you keep getting asked for username and password when accessing a windows IFS share? Are you confused why the share to your IBM I Server cannot be viewed in Windows Explorer? Can you view the IFS from one

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