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BCD Presto – Software Green Screen Modernization aka – AS400 iSeries 5250 Screen to Web Conversions BCD Presto is probably my favourite screen modernization tool. It has a very simple and clean screen editor. It’s reliable, fast and intuitive. Most importantly, when I have those “what is the best way to do this?” questions the …
Nice Subprocedures with RPG ON-EXIT IBM is adding all kinds of new tweaks to RPG with each new release of IBM i. RPG ON-EXIT is a great example of a neat tweak to the RPG programming language. Last year, IBM quietly introduced a rather neat new function called “ON-EXIT” to our sub procedures in RPG. …
I read this excellent article on IBM Systems Magazine website. From two of my favorite IBM i Guru’s Jon Paris and Susan Ganter: This month we’re beginning a series on modern RPG fundamentals. So many changes have taken place in the language over the years that, increasingly, we find that students in our classes are …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
A simple RPG ILE Trigger Program This morning, an old programming chum of mine was chatting to me about writing a program, that would be called every time anything was updated in a given file (table) on the system. This action is very simple in the IBM-i world, using a technique called FILE TRIGGERS. What …
Time to install Presto AS400 iSeries 5250 to Web modernizer Responsive Mobile It’s now easier for IBM i programmers to transform their green screens into web GUIs that are optimized for both desktop and mobile with Presto’s new responsive design capabilities. Presto version 7 incorporates Bootstrap, an open source framework that enables the design of …
Change Case in RPG Changing SENTENCE CASE didnt used to be something that the grey haired AS400 and iSERIES programmers ever worried about. Back in the pre-internet days, most data entry was in UPPERCASE, plugged into giant green on black terminals by people wearing 1970’s flares and thick glass spectacles. But now it’s a new …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
RPG Example to remove Letters from Telephone Number Just working on a project to create an American IRS 1099 Extract File. Lots of field data management rules in the file thats going to be sent to the IRS. One of them is that all telephone number fields must be numeric only left adjusted. Of course, …
Loads of choices and a terrific range of great places to eat in Charleston so here’s my personal favorites – trying to cover a broad spectrum. Downtown My favorite *steak* restaurant is called Peninsular Grill and its smack in the middle of downtown. Just park at the old market on, surprisingly enough, market street and …
THIS IS A TEST OF THE FACEBOOK/DRUPAL CONNECTION
So, I'm trying to figure out if this darned Drupal Facebook Module will allow me to connect my main login information with Facebook. If this works then this will appear on Facebook.
If this doesn't work then I am going to sulk and write bum on the windows.
The documentation says:
With Drupal for Facebook, you can harness all the power of Drupal in you Facebook App. If you already have content in Drupal, you can expose it on Facebook.
The Drupal for Facebook philosophy is that the functionality already built into Drupal should be used to create Facebook Applications. Where possible, we use Drupal's user management, permission schemes, blocks, views, etc. to implement the Facebook App. Experienced Drupal users will find it very straightforward to build a Facebook App. While Facebook developers new to Drupal may want to spend some time on Drupal.org learning best practices.
...Cause The Java Heap size is not set high enough. Resolving the problem These steps help increase the JVM max heap size from the default of 1 GB. Heap size specifies the amount of dynamic memory to be made available to the JVM code. For systems with less than 1 GB of physical memory, use …
Modern ILE RPG now (finally) supports “fully free form” RPG Source code This means, we can write RPG code from column 1 to the end of the line — just like other languages. No more jumping to character 10 to get passed the old reserved (H,F,D,I,C,O) specification column. You must code **FREE in column 1 …
Source code line number sequencing in Rational Developer for IBM i Updating a source member and adding a bunch of lines will re-sequence the line numbers by default. Turning re-sequencing *OFF lets us clearly see added, deleted or changed blocks of code. We can set this on the exit line of SEU and also if …
