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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 …
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’ START OS/400 What is DDM ? Distributed Data Management …
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 …
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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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 …
