One IBM i IDE to Rule them All IBM has released a seemingly innocuous update to IBM Rational Developer for IBM i. The new version, V9.8, is built over the latest version of eclipse and looks and feels the same as the previous (v9.6) version of RDi but is slightly faster. Sadly, it’s also HUGELY

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It’s time to move MOVE out of old RPG Programs One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made while trying to modernise old RPG code, is simply importing the old code and trying to take the whole thing as one lump upgrade to modern RPG ILE. Hindsight is 2020, and something I’ve learned from the many

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IBM i HTTP Web Server Authentication using an IBM i User Profile and Password We tend to think of consuming a webservice (“connecting and reading from a webservice”) as something that is open to the public. But what if we want to add an extra level of authentication? How about we force the connection to

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