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I’m not a fan of the ‘IT Consultant‘ moniker because its kind of generic, non-descriptive and dull. Sadly, being called an ‘IT Consultant’ seems to be the industry standard for anyone tinkering with software on these computer things… so maybe I’m stuck with it. 🙁 I prefer describing myself as a Programmer in the same …
Courtesy of the very nice chaps at Kensington Motor Cars here in Las Vegas: A new engine crank sensor! The LR3 crank sensor Now… this might seem like a tiny little bit of plastic and metal but is it the savior or haunted LR3 engines everywhere? After many, many, many discussions with the garage owner (Bill) …
UPDATE 2017 : USE %SCANRPL Built in Function – IBM added a %BIF to do this for us in modern RPGLE so we can now just do a %SCANRPL in native RPG. I’m leaving this old blog here for reference but look HERE for the modern and much easier way of doing this schnizzle So, You …
Using the internal cross reference files mean that us lowly IBMi Programmers can access heap of system information just by reading a file… the days of DSPFFD to an outfile then reading the outfile are long gone – we can just read the file field information direct from QADBIFLD instead… There are eight cross-reference physical …
Here is a little something a friend sent me that is indisputable mathematical logic. Nerdish and silly but I suppose it appeals to the dark mathematical side of my soul. But the message is very true. It goes like this: What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about …
I’ve been busy doing real work the last few evenings and seeing my wonderful kids (but HEY I’m biased) so the time I had planned for this website revamp has just kind of drifted away like smoke through my fingers. I managed to grab a few hours this evening and have just completed the Drupal …
So, for the last few weeks I’ve been working on adding credit card handling to a legacy RPG application with a static HTML website over the top. The application code itself was written in the eighties and has evolved through a number of different versions of RPG (a mix of RPG2, RPG3, RPG400 and even …
TURNOVER Client (aka Turnover GUI) Turnover (from Soft Landings Inc) is a pretty cool Software Change Management system running on iseries IBM i. The IBM i system is the Server. We connect to the IBM i TURNOVER SERVER from our device (laptop, desktop, mobile, etc) using software called TURNOVER CLIENT. Back in the bad old …
Can we find which Turnover Forms ran from a specific Turnover Application? The answer is ‘YES’ and you might find it’s easier than you thought. Using good old fashioned green screen menus (which in my case are white screens – but dont let that distract you) we can find this info quickly and easily. Here …
This is a pain not being able to see it in RPGNG (RPG Next Generation is an excellent RPG coding tool) but I still have to revert to things like PDM find all source members with specific descriptions against them…. For example: I want to see all RPG source code used for the ‘ABCDEFG’ project …
TUR3333 – No local Turnover system Defined This week I mainly been playing with Turnover V100…. Preparing TURNOVER V100 (Software Change Management tool for IBMi Systems) for a major application upgrade, adding the ability to use Turnover Forms for specifically deleting and/or moving objects from one environment (library) to another. In this case its because …
Apple Computer purchased a Cray supercomputer in the mid-1980s. According to Legend, Steve Jobs was Cray’s first and only walk-in customer. He arrived unannounced (so the story goes) at Cray headquarters in Mendota Heights, Minnesota and asked to speak to someone about buying a Cray. They nearly threw him out. It’s only slightly less eccentric …
