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AS400, IBM i, iSeries, Programming, RPG
New Improved Projex for AS400, iSeries and IBM i Systems I’ve been working on the new version of PROJEX400 V5.x over the last couple of months. It’s running very well on one of my IBM Servers at home (the other one is sitting there waiting for me to source a copy of IBMi V5R4 from …
CVTRPGSRC – Convert RPG Source This is a standard IBM i command which will ‘Convert RPG Source’ (CVTRPGSRC) from RPG III or RPG/400 source code to ILE RPG source code. If you are running on a system using the old (1980’s format) RPG source code — easily recognisable because it uses the short column widths …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
I was recently copied on an interoffice email from a fellow RPG chappie (he’s quite sharp actually despite his funny mockney accent).
Aforementioned Mockney-Coder was modifying a recent program, written by a legacy RPG3 programmer (these creatures are very rare to find in the wild and we have placed them on the endangered species list).
Amazingly, there are still a handful of RPG Programmers out there who still write in RPG3. RPG3 was upgraded to RPG400 in 1993(?) so if they havent upgraded to RPG400 yet then the chances of getting up to RPGLE and then to RPG/FREE are slim to none.
But Mockney-Coder is a diligent chap and he mentioned a neat little alternative piece of RPG/FREE code that could be used to replace the large subroutines and array handling code chunks needed to perform the same thing in the old fashioned and clunky column based RPG varieties. After all, Variety is the spice of life…
all names have been removed to protect the innocent 😉
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All of us IBMi Developers use the System I Network as the holy grail of IBMi IT resources on the web. But not everybody knows you can get the monthly magazine for free…… System I News is the a free monthly magazine, in both physical and pdf format, that tells you what’s going on at …
I occasionally get an email from RPG programmers out there in IBMi-Land who have spent the last decade gently plodding along in RPG3 and RPG400 and now face the daunting prospect of having to hone there RPG skills and learn RPG4 (or RPG-LE or /FREE as its also called). So, I’ve quickly cobbled together links …
Recently at a client site, I heard a monotonous and really quite annoying sound: tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… coming from the adjoining Dilbert cubicle.
This prompted me to ask what he was doing. He reluctantly moaned that “I have to move all these spool files to another output queue and their are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them”
I looked quizzically until I realized he was in WRKSPLF on the green screen and was manually selecting each and every spool file with a 2 before paging down for the next screen, for as many screen as was needed, he then planned to change the output queue.
Wow!
Loads of time wasted doing a manual task when the tools to move the entire output queue are already right there in Windows but just didnt know about it.
...So, as I’m here in Roanoke Airport for an extra hour (curse this rainy valley and US Airways little puddle jumper airplanes) I might as well make use of the free Wifi and blog something 🙂 Hmmm… how about something on Drupal? Ten Essential Modules for every Drupal website I have a big list of …
I really like my little Blackberry Storm but the only bit that’s a bit naff is the camera. In dark light conditions, the photo quality is very bad and the video is just generally a bit crap. I like just about everything else about it, but it is a year old so it’s time to …
Here’s the other date conversion – It’s a JBA date (7,0 numeric) to 8 character alpha in JIS format (YYYYMMDD) with no separators. If you want separators in your result then simply expand the result field by 2 characters (to 10) and replace the “0” in the “*jis0” with what ever separator you prefer. Eval …
So, I played a very enjoyable round of golf at the ‘Ole Monterey Golf Course in Roanoke today. When I say ENJOYABLE what I really mean is… getting lost on the way there due to an incredible idiotic GPS system courtesy of Verizon, arriving late, jumping on golf cart, jumping out of golf cart when …
This website has been running on the Drupal CMS since upgrading from Joomla to Drupal 5 back in 2007. I’ve closely followed each new Drupal release and experienced the teething pains as modules have evolved to the exciting state they are in the moment. Drupal Rocks and I’m eagerly awaiting the new Drupal 7 release (as …
This website has been running on the Drupal CMS since upgrading from Joomla to Drupal 5 back in 2007. I’ve closely followed each new Drupal release and experienced the teething pains as modules have evolved to the exciting state they are in the moment. Drupal Rocks and I’m eagerly awaiting the new Drupal 7 release …
