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WDSC is a terrific graphical Coding Tool for the IBMi – Best in class of the ‘free as400 coding’ tools. For editing RPG and/or CL its a no brainer. Clean screen editing and a whole bunch of very cool tools that simply blow the old SEU environment out of the water. “But what about the …
Triumph Rocket Funny Advert I recently stumbled across this fantastic advert for the Triumph Rocket III. Apparently its a real viral advertisement commissioned by Triumph back in 2007. I cant believe I had never seen it. Most amusing, in the style of the old Hitchhikers Guide and just, well, Bloody Good: “Ever since the dawn …
OVRDBF – Override Database File You can use the Override with Database file (OVRDBF) command to replace the database file named in a CL program or to change certain parameters of the existing database file. It can be overridden at a certain invocation level within the stack or set to be job wide. Secondary over-rides …
“timshel is a weird Hebrew word. That’s true, but it’s also a well known English rock band. timshel have a dedicated fans following them around the pub, club and festival scene for their alternate rock sound which is reminiscent of a mixture of various gods of rock ranging from the Stones to Blind Melon to …
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’ Â START OS/400 What is DDM ? Distributed Data Management …
Wow! It’s December already! After a whirlwind year involving moving the whole family, two dogs and a pile of News 3x/400 magazines to this side of the pond I cant believe it’s nearly 2010 already. Two thousand nine has seen us settling into our new life in the US, focussing mainly on IBMi and I …
IBM i jobs comes in two flavours – INTERACTIVE which means that a user keying into a terminal and using the program interacting with the program code, or BATCH which means this program has been submitted and is expected to execute without any human interaction. The module below, INTERACT, determines whether your program is running …
Get the IBM i Operating System Version in IBM i CL There are lots of way of checking the operating system version on your IBM i Server. On your command line type DSPSFWRSC and with F11 you will see the Software Version of all the products installed on your iSeries. You could also use the …
IBM i – WebSphere Development Studio Client (RPG Programming Tool) is really quite Cool! I’ve just installed WDSC7.0 for the first time (/me ducks from the barrage of rotten fruit launched at him from the rowdy-RDi-crowd) and have almost had a religious experience with it. For years I’ve been feverishly hammering away in S.E.U. and …
YOUR IBM System is NOT an AS/400 YOUR IBM System is NOT an iSeries IBM stopped making the old AS400 in the 1990’s The iSeries came next and that ran for over ten years The current machine is an IBM Power System. The grandson of the AS400 YOUR IBM System is an IBM POWER SERVER …
The effective withdrawal date for i5/OS® V5R4, additional selected programs, and features, has been extended from January 5, 2010, to January 7, 2011. The effective withdrawal date for i5/OS® V5R4, additional selected programs, and features, as announced in Software withdrawal 909-003, dated January 27, 2009, is extended from January 5, 2010, to January 7, 2011. For …
Download and Update WebSphere Development Studio Client WDSC7 for free I’m an IBM i RPG Developer – do I choose SEU, RSE (RDi) or WDSC? If your caught between using SEU (Stoneage Editting Utility) and RSE (Really Stupidly Expensive) for your IBM-i code development environment – you have one other glaringly obvious choice – WDSC …
