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Washington DC – President Trump announced his government is launching a special software advisory group – “Not long ago we all went through the Year 2000 crisis. If you were in the computer and software industry you recall the many headaches in converting and changing databases and software so the Year 2000 would be a …
Excited to see a new release of MiWorkplace – the replacement for RPG NEXT GEN code editor. Will download this and do a little review in a blog sometime: Hi Nick, I am really happy to announce a new release of MiWorkplace. This release is not as feature packed as the last one but on …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
A simple RPG ILE Trigger Program This morning, an old programming chum of mine was chatting to me about writing a program, that would be called every time anything was updated in a given file (table) on the system. This action is very simple in the IBM-i world, using a technique called FILE TRIGGERS. What …
Time to install Presto AS400 iSeries 5250 to Web modernizer Responsive Mobile It’s now easier for IBM i programmers to transform their green screens into web GUIs that are optimized for both desktop and mobile with Presto’s new responsive design capabilities. Presto version 7 incorporates Bootstrap, an open source framework that enables the design of …
Change Case in RPG Changing SENTENCE CASE didnt used to be something that the grey haired AS400 and iSERIES programmers ever worried about. Back in the pre-internet days, most data entry was in UPPERCASE, plugged into giant green on black terminals by people wearing 1970’s flares and thick glass spectacles. But now it’s a new …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
RPG Example to remove Letters from Telephone Number Just working on a project to create an American IRS 1099 Extract File. Lots of field data management rules in the file thats going to be sent to the IRS. One of them is that all telephone number fields must be numeric only left adjusted. Of course, …
Cause The Java Heap size is not set high enough. Resolving the problem These steps help increase the JVM max heap size from the default of 1 GB. Heap size specifies the amount of dynamic memory to be made available to the JVM code. For systems with less than 1 GB of physical memory, use …
Problems Downloading IBM i ACS (Access Client Solutions)? The new replacement for the aging, creaky AS400 Client Access is the cunningly titled IBM i Access Client Solutions Download this all new JAVA software is free, as long as you create an IBM Passport Account and once installed it lets you connect to the IBM I …
IBM Rational Developer for i Service Pack V9.5.1.1 is now available This fixpack includes fixes, enhancements and the long awaited Refactoring capability: letting us Rename Declarations from Column based to free format. If you are an RDi User — and if you are an RPG programmer then you will be — use the IBM Installation …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
A Modern RPG Programmer writes RPGLE, RPG4, RPG400, RPG3, RPG2 programs I suppose many of them also enjoy Role Playing Games but that is neither here nor there. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. It is an IBM programming language which had evolved from the early day of punch cards and gentlemen who programmed with …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
Who uses the AS/400 anymore? I frequently see this question in places like Linkedin, Facebook and Quora, it’s both simple and complicated to answer. It’s Simple because the AS/400 just doesn’t exist anymore! I doubt anyone is using the old AS400 machines anymore…. they are over thirty years old. Complicated because (stupidly) many current day programmers …
TSERVER Subsystem on IBM i TURNOVER Software Change Management for iSeries (*) uses a subsystem to control the distribution of software revisions to other nodes in the network. The TURNOVER TSERVER subsystem is a quiet little background job that controls the sending and receiving jobs. * Softlanding not upgraded their TURNOVER software branding for over …
