“Show me Programs that haven’t been used for a year!” … said the System Housekeeping Project Manager! OK then… let’s provide an SQL statement to query the OBJECT_STATISTICS table for programs that haven’t been used in over a year. Key Points: Optional Enhancements: This query helps identify unused programs for potential archival or removal.

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TURNOVER V101 Application Lifecycle Manager Where is the Documentation? After recently upgrading to the latest fix pack for TURNOVER V101, I have all the latest documentation sitting in a folder on my desktop. “Oh what an exciting life you lead Mr Litten” I can hear you think You. Thinking. But despite this astounding level of

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Build a Resume From Your LinkedIn Profile If you keep your LinkedIn profile up to date—and need a hard copy of your resume—give LinkedIn’s Resume Builder a try. Linkedin’s resume builder takes the information from your LinkedIn profile and generates a resume, which can be downloaded as a PDF.. You can choose from a number

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Yes – RRN is Unique (The answer is YES it’s unique while it’s in use… but it can be NO since a RRN can be RE-USED for a new table Row) IBM i Tables (aka AS400 files) have a unique number assigned to every row in the table. This number is called a Relative Record

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IBM Rational Developer for IBM i Trying to format your RPGLE source code and seeing “Formatting Failed: No Model Available”? One of the nicest features of using RDI, compared to the old world of green screen SEU coding, is the ability to automatically format and tidy your program code. Using the FORMAT CODE option in

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Taking your Resume from simple text to Infographic As I mentioned in another blog – I use LinkedIn to edit and maintain my resume. It makes the information editing very simple and clean, and also generates a nice-looking basic resume layout. Maybe this layout works fine – but have you ever looked at infographic versions

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PARLER the last bastion of “FREE SPEECH” During the course of 2020, we have seen the dystopian silencing of free speech on social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. New discourse applications like PARLER have spawned in this space to defend and champion this thing called freedom of speech. The four Big Tech companies

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I’m still on a Covid rant 🙂 Covid19, SAR-COV-2, the dreaded CORONA VIRUS is Real! But… it’s not like the black plague! This is not Ebola, it’s not SARS, It’s politics playing at medicine and that’s a very dangerous game Dr. Hodkinson Back in November 2020 – Doctor Roger Hodkinson publicly announced his opinion on

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My mate Toby sent me this email: I love RDI … But I do come across one issue that I’m sure you can sort out… using SEU if I wanted to find the start of a subroutine, I always made them # something like #Clr or #Bld etc. and there was only 1 place in

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What happens when your TURNOVER Promotion form runs? A TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 form runs in several phases. Pre-run Processing: Phase I All preliminary processing is done including pre-run exits, pre-run commands, creation of working libraries, and so on. Promotion Processing: Phase II Source is copied, objects created or moved, folder objects promoted, data copied,

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UPDATED – Since I wrote this original blog with the (slightly complex) PHP instructions on how to set ADD TO CART, a new WordPress Plugin was released to do this at the click of a button. Check out the bottom of this page in the section titled “The Easy Way – WordPress Plugin WooCommerce Customizer”

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How to use ‘Conditional Selection in RPGLE and CLLE’ Way back in 2008, I wrote this blog about how to do various condition selection in RPG. So, I suppose it time to modernize those code examples in modern RPGLE Free, tidy it up, and add the same code examples in CLLE. In RPGLE (and in

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