Today, I want to share a wild ride that started as a simple video lesson, I planned to record a video on IBM BOB generating a CL program to check library sizes but quickly turned into a full-blown system emergency as I found my connection locking up, and my IBM-i system sitting at 99.9% disk

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If you’re a gray-haired IBM-i Programmer like me (I prefer silver-fox BTW), you’ve definitely spent countless hours wrangling with the green screen, trying to make your system do exactly what you want. That’s where Control Language, or CL for short, comes in handy. It’s the scripting language built right into IBM i that lets you

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Using CPYFRMIMPF to use flat text files in the IFS The Copy from Import File (CPYFRMIMPF) command can be used to copy data from any IFS file into an IBM i (DB2) Table. It handles very simple delimited file conversions like CSV files and also straight flat text files. The Copy to Import File (CPYTOIMPF)

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