Twenty years ago these are the kind of things you had to know to work on the old AS400 systems. I found these on an old dusty corner of my homeserver. Enjoy the trip down memory lane or to use old RPG lingo AS400 NERD CABEQ ‘1’  START OLD RPG – RPG400 or COLUMN BASED

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Twenty years ago these are the kind of things you had to know to work on the old AS400 systems. I found these on an old dusty corner of my homeserver. Enjoy the trip down memory lane or to use old RPG lingo AS400NERD CABEQ ‘1’  START DATABASE FILES What are the different definition levels

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Twenty years ago these are the kind of things you had to know to work on the old AS400 systems. I found these on an old dusty corner of my homeserver. Enjoy the trip down memory lane or to use old RPG lingo AS400NERD CABEQ ‘1’  START SUBFILES What is a subfile ? Subfile is

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Bloody thing.. after working nicely for just over a week, leading me to think the problem was all down to blocked injectors… the starting *problem* is back with a vengeance. The long landrover saga or engine Demons are back with a vengeance… FIRKING THING! /me takes a deep calming breath….. So, 80% of the time

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Oh its horrible when Drupal decides it’s got a headache and throws an error message out: I THINK THEREFORE IBM-i [ home of NICK LITTEN – IBMi Developer and Geek-a-holic ] Error The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. I’ve had a few head scratchers over my time and as this website

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I’ve never had such a love hate relationship with a damn car!! Boris the Landrover LR3 is my daily driver and I really do genuinely enjoy driving it. But this vehicle’s reliability is down in the swamp. Why is the Landrover LR3 unreliable? I can’t tell you – and I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying

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From AS400/RPG to IBMi/RPGLE I’ve been involved in some heavy RPG modernization projects recently. Ranging from application replacements, to middleware webservice integrations to light code dusting…. I enjoy it all, just a little too much! Forget Alcoholics Anonymous, I should attend a software modernization addicts meetings where AA = AS400 Anonymous “Yes my name is

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Two days after dropping a couple of grand on a new starter motor, new transmission shifter (and two weeks of rental cars) trying to *fix* the ‘refusing-to-start’ problem… The very naughty Boris had driven like a dream over the weekend and I was finally enjoying the Landrover experience again thinking it was solved… this morning

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changed outside of turnover – #AAAARGH I’m currently working with IBMi (iSeries) Turnover change management system. It’s the best SCM (Software Change Management) application in IBMi land and has a great balance between being easy to use and very powerful. I know the product fairly well, but it still grins and kicks me in the

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I’m sometimes bemused by gaping holes in the IBMi operating arena. What do I mean by this? The IBM i Operating System is fantastically robust, powerful yet simple to use. It’s evolved from the early days of CPF on the System/3x machines, up through the OS400 years and now in its latest and greatest iteration

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MovieMode = *ON; So, According to ScreenRant.com development of the next installment of I AM LEGEND is underway: There have been rumblings about an impending second installment in the I Am Legend (would-be) franchise being made, ever since the original 2007 film grossed over half a billion dollars worldwide in theaters. Warner Bros. has finally

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Boris the Landrover decided to breakdown last night…. it was the good old recurring problem where the LR3 decides not to start… At all…. It’s like the engine immobilizer kicks in and it just wont start. Turn the key and it turns for a few seconds then stop turning regardless of position of the key…

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