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Opening a blog with a rant is never nice but “Why do I have to put AS400 in the blog title“! Aaarrrgh — This still annoys but so many people still google using as400 because googling with iseries, system i, or IBM i — its hard to choose what audience this information might be useful …
another snippet from an old document I found in a dim dark and hazy corner of an even older HDD… rather than let it disintegrate, here it is migrating to the web just in the (extreme) off chance that it may be useful to someone out there. Hey.. if YOU are reading this then its dont its job 😉
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Some customers have asked us for an Example of LANSA reading a join file created by OPNQRYF
Never seen so many grey haired developers in one hotel 😉
On a serious note – Some terrific speakers and I was impressed by the general knowledge of all the presenters. I can honestly say I never got bored for one moment and good presentation style kept my attention for all 4 days. Joe Pluta in particular is an amusing guy with some strong opinions, and very funny to listen to.
It’s nice to listen to i-people who are as obviously enthusiastic about the i as i am… see what I did there?
...so whats the difference between:
Chain (keyfields) filename; If Not %eof( filename ); --- do something --- EndIF;
and Code:
Chain (keyfields) filename; If %Found( filename ) --- do something --- EndIF;
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Rochester, MN – IBM yesterday said it would expand its efforts to address the growing global waste data disposal crisis by teaming up with Data Waste Management, Inc. Together the companies will jointly introduce new services, technologies and financing to help enterprises facing the skyrocketing costs of waste data disposal. Throughout the world companies produce …
Tekton is my absolute bestest font. I just re-discovered it after an absense of some 20 years. wow I am old!! Back in my Toshiba/JBA days I remember being all excited about this new thing called the internet and spending half an hour downloading the tekton fonts from some FTP server in France using my …
Upgrading TURNOVER is easy So, today I’m upgrading the IBM ISeries Change Management system from Turnover version 5.3 to 5.4 I’m also going to switch from the old Jurassic Green screen methods to the funky space-age GUI that comes bundled with TurnoverV5R4. This new Turnover Client is an addon to the open-source editor – Eclipse. …
bang a drum like a rockstar OK – So I must admit to being slightly biased as Rob Litten happens to be my cousin but… Rob has grown from the gangly kid that I remember into a quite astounding musician. When he’s not drumming away on any nearby acoustic surface (my granite kitchen has never …
I’m like a big kid and really looking forward to the end of October. But this doesnt involve witches, black cats, badly fitted fancy dress, an orgy of cheap plastic Halloween consumerism not does it involve kids demanding candy under threat of egging your car. It’s the Annual iSeries Developers Convention. October 25th-28, including the …
I’m like a big kid and really looking forward to the end of October. But this doesnt involve witches, black cats, badly fitted fancy dress, an orgy of cheap plastic Halloween consumerism not does it involve kids demanding candy under threat of egging your car. It’s the Annual iSeries Developers Convention. October 25th-28, including the …
So, there I was this morning sipping my cup of rather disgustingly nauseous Pumpkin Flavored Starbucks Coffee… You gotta try these things, because as my grandpa always said “nothing ventured nothing gained” but sadly the Judges awarded the beverage Color-7 Presentation-8 Taste-Yuk!… but I digress… Where was I? Ah yes, the wonderful IBM RPG Programming Language! What does …
So, back in the days of Sinclair C5’s, black and white TV licenses and pound notes, RPG was a bright new and vibrant programming language.
/me coughs and splutters slightly
Digging around an old Disk Drive (or perhaps I should say ‘winchester drive’) just looking to see if it was safe to throw away, I discovered some great old word documents that I put together back in the day. One of these was an RPG type test which was used to try to gauge the knowledge of people applying for programming roles within the Software House that I worked for.
I guess this was first written back in 91 and only goes to show how steady RPG is since it’s largely unchanged and still going strong after nearly 20 years:
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