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The maximum password complexity on IBM i can be quite extensive, especially when using higher password levels. Here are the key points: Which raises the obvious question: How do I go about setting long IBM i passwords to match those in the Windows World? By setting the system to these higher levels, you can significantly …
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The Winner is Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is an IDE (Interactive Development Environment). It’s a modern coding tool helping software developers to work with many languages. To write and maintain source code on your IBM i, iSeries or AS400 system, simply download and install the ‘Code for IBM i’ addon. Visual Studio Code …
Home Exchange is pretty pretty pretty good Seriously – you can travel the world, swapping your home with some else’s for nothing! You can exchange your home for your next vacation and have an unforgettable travel experience. With more than 450,000 homes in 187 countries, HomeExchange is the world leader in home exchange vacations. Discover …
The Internet is a wealth of facts, fictions, opinions, lies, and halftruths! This thing called the internet has lots of information, lots of misinformation, lots of good guys, and lots of bad guys in it. Just like the human society we live in. In real life, we read signals of danger from how people look, …
You can use IBM I ACS two ways – INSTALLED or STANDALONE Personally, I prefer to run IBM i ACS as a simple Java application that is linked by a shortcut on my desktop. No installs to worry about and everything opens when I click it. I call this a standalone install. What does this …
IBM i 5250 Emulation (aka IBM® i Access for Web) So what does IBM say about this? IBM® i Access for Web provides a set of Javaâ„¢ servlets to access IBM i resources through a browser interface. These servlets run in a Web application server environment on a system running IBM i. IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM integrated …
From Software Change Management System (CMS) to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Back in the good old days of the AS400 and iSeries machines – we used a CMS system for controlling where and how we distributed and installed software. CMS Stood for Change Management Software and it did exactly what it said on the tin. …
IBM Control Language has remained virtually unchanged over the years. When the IBM AS400 was replaced by the IBM iSeries, fifteen years ago, a few little tweaks were added to CL but it remained remarkably unchanged. If it’s not broken don’t fix it. A few years later the sun set on the iSeries machine and …
Download Install or Upgrade CNX Valence Fresh in my email this morning, I had a notice from the propellor heads at CNX that a new fixpack was released. This includes a number of enhancements that I have requested so I’m intrigued to see it in action. Download the latest Valence 6 maintenance build Valence 6 build …
WRKACTJOB is DSPACTJOB on steroids Every process that runs on an IBM i System is a #JOB. Using the WRKACTJOB command is pretty intuitive, since you are working with all the active jobs on the system you are literally asking your IBM i to show you all the active processes and allow you to view, …
Hunting down QTEMP Fat Cats As an IBM i propeller-head you are most likely familiar with the QTEMP library. Right? You already know that QTEMP isn’t a standard library (called ‘schemas’ in SQL speak) – it’s unlike all the other libraries QTEMP is yours and yours only: Essentially, QTEMP is a unique temporary storage area …
I’m sick of Covid It’s time for another Covid Rant 🙂 I posted on social media this morning, expressing my opinion that: “I believe some governments are mishandling the Covid19 pandemic response and blowing it out of all proportion! The minimal effect of Covid19 on the world’s population (with a 99%+ survival rate) makes this …
