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Left adjusting Alpha Values into Numeric Fields with RPGLE So, I was writing a little code snippet for a client after being told that all warehouse codes must be treated as 3 numeric character integers ranging from 1-999 and soon saw that the warehouse value was an alphabetic field? Huh? A little more digging around, …
The Landrover LR3 bugger got me again at Lunchtime today.. in the rain… which is pretty rare in Charleston SC… rain that is… not Boris refusing to start (which is very very common). The only bright side to this damp tale of sorrow… is using the mysterious ‘remove spark plug 1’ technique to fire the …
Bloody sparkie thing… so I’m just not brave enough or (the real reason) rich enough to start switching out the electrical components yet… but maybe next month… Boris refused to start again… so I decided to say SCREW IT and rented a rather pleasing little black Jeep Wrangler. The rental was way too expensive but …
So – ever since breaking down in San Francisco and being rescued by a mobile mechanic…. and discovering the mysterious ‘take off number 1 spark plug and thou shalt start’ commandment. Here we are and the 11th commandment is still working. Bloody thing. Friday is just another day in breakdown Boris land
...After the last bout of engine work (replacing the crank sensor thing) Boris was nice for nearly 3 months… before acting up again. Although a lot less frequently…. Up until this month hes only refused to start once every few weeks… I’ve been just living with it. Last month he had major sulk and left …
IBM i, AS400, IFS, iSeries, Programming
Email all Spool Files for IBM I For a couple of years now, I’ve used this little EMLOUTQ utility program (written in IBM i Control Language) to read through an output queue and email each and every spool file as a plain text file. It’s useful but old and a little tired looking. Luckily for …
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring …
I got this little digital thumbs-up from LinkedIn, telling me that my LinkedIn profile ranked among the top 5% of most viewed profiles during 2012! Woooo! Queue long armed over the shoulder patting for Moi! I’m in the top 5% of my industry…. Well, that’s not quite true. It’s not even remotely true actually. To …
This year I’m in San Francisco for Valentines Day. Had a lovely time visiting the wine region of Napa, and when Boris refused to start we were prepared. If you choose to spend Valentines day with a Landrover you expect the unexpected. I simply swore and stood around for 30 minutes trying all the tricks …
More questions abvout adopting authority on IBM i SYstems. So lets #discuss 😉 Adopt higher iSeries Authority to change System Configuration Question: I am needing to write a program, command, or whatever, that will enable my users to adopt a higher authority when they want to delete or vary on/off a device. All the users …
I’ve been working with a new customer recently which means I’m once again, finding myself in the i-vangelist pulpit. I was about to say that I’m tired of responding with “Huh? You said AS400? Do you really still have one of those old machines? I thought IBM stopped making those in the nineties…” but a …
Crank Sensor didn’t fix anything 🙁 However, on my life mission of looking on the bright side, it did work for nearly eight weeks straight. Before refusing to start while parked outside a client office in San Francisco, which is only really a minor embarrassment. I suppose it could have happened half way across the …
