It’s not someone that makes door handles is it? In software development a handler is a routine/function/method specializing in working with a certain type of data or focused on doing a special task. For example: Event handler – Receives and digests events and signals from the surrounding system (e.g. OS or GUI) or RPG HANDLER – Send/Receives data from

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When I was a lad – you read the newspaper for news, you talked to neighbors to network and find the local gossip, you watched TV or went to the Cinema for movies. Nowadays, it’s all done on computers and it’s us programmers that create, nurse and stroke this things called computer programs. How you

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Resetting forgotten IBM i (aka iSeries and AS400) passwords is a PITA! And I don’t mean PITA BREAD. So, a simple captcha style password reset, accessible from the user password signon screen has got to be a good idea… right? So, rather than the old “have you called the helpdesk to reset your password?” routine….

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another old snippet from an ancient document I found in a dim dark and hazy corner of an even older and crustier HDD… rather than let it disintegrate, here it is migrating to the web just in the (extreme) off chance that it may be useful to someone out there…. 😉

 

Debug a program in BATCH.

 

1.    Hold the JobQ (Eg: QBATCH)

2.    Submit the job.

3.    Hold the job – Take option 3 against the job in “Work with submitted jobs”.

4.    Release the JobQ

5.    Take option 5 against the job to be debugged and make a note of the “Job Name”, “User”, and “Job Number”.

6.    Execute the command STRSRVJOB – Start Service Job. Input the Job Name, User, Job Number.

7.    STRDBG – Start Debug.

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Feb 2014 Update — If you are here looking for details on how to fix VPN failure after doing a Windows8.1 or Windows10 upgrade then use Windows Troubleshooter to Change the mode to Windows compatibility 1. Right click VPNUI in the Cisco install folder. (for example “C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\”) 2. Choose Troubleshoot compatibility.

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Hide WordPress TITLE area in Thrive themes using CSS *phew* That’s a sentence and a half. Sadly, if you are nerdy, geeky, keyboard inclined and in touch with your web-design genes then that will make sense. You’re probably only reading this because you specifically googled something like “hide wordpress title using css” so that makes

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Wondering what REXX is? First off, it has nothing to do with those big green lizards that ran around angrily eating other lizards (presumably because their pathetically small arms gave them some kind of appendage envy) REXX is a kinda cool interpretive language — a bit like Control language (CLP). The neat thing about it

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Lets start with this ‘REST vs SOAP is not the right question to ask you silly billy! SOAP is a protocol – REST is an architectural style (a design for network-based software architectures) REST concepts are referred to as resources. A representation of a resource must be stateless. It is represented via some media type.

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Back in the olden days – files were filled with numbers and long string of data. Words like SAUSAGES might have been stored as a 30 ALPHA field in the format “SAUSAGES______________________” which, even tho its padded with *blanks – is just wasting a lot of space. Nowadays, most systems use variable length fields, shorter,

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RPG ILE %BIF (Built In Function) I always forget the differences between %EOF, %EQUAL and Not %Found when writing native file I/O in RPG ILE Programs.  Sometimes a file record is %found and sometimes its not. Even after all these years I still scratch my head about which one is which. I know, I know –

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A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us. This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake,

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Peep show… peep show… bloody brilliant … nuff said  Arguably my favorite laugh-out-loud sitcom of all time. Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and it filmed from the unusual ‘through-their-eyes’ point of view. You can also hear the thoughts of the person who’s eyes you are looking through. Saying

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