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Another work week comes to an end. Another week when an executive asked “I’ve heard both names, do we have an iSeries or an AS400?” Another work week, where I had to gently explain, “We have an IBM POWER SYSTEM, running an operating system called IBM i.” Another work week, where I had to follow …
IBMi Modernization The Challenge of AS400/ISERIES Application Modernization, Database SQL Conversion and Cloud Migration Regardless of where you are in the world and whenever you are reading this blog entry, 99.99% of AS400 and ISERIES applications are running on an IBM i Power System. The reason I saved a .01%, is because I know of …
What is VISUAL STUDIO CODE? Microsoft Visual Studio Code, “a free-editor that helps the programmer write code, helps in debugging and corrects the code using the intelli-sense method”: Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with …
Every propeller head takes some kind of perverse joy from wiping and reinstalling their Windows Machine. I know I do. After a year of various software installs, un-installs, re-installs, tweaks, hacks, dicking around (that’s a technical term) my Windows machine starts to get twitchy and a little punch drunk. It’s time for a fresh install and …
The State of AS400 iSeries Application Modernization Historically, our old AS400 and ISERIES applications were stateful. In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system. So, if we are looking at …
Pattern Recognition: Ease Modern RPG Programming This morning I was reviewing the IBM i Redbook on application modernization, converting this massive PDF into an easy readable TOPIC based format in my AS400 and iSeries modernization course. I found a couple of problems with the internet. Yep, the internet is broken. The ebook has a couple …
IBM i, AS400, IDE, iSeries, Modernization, Programming, RPG
The Winner is Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is an IDE (Interactive Development Environment). It’s a modern coding tool helping software developers to work with many languages. To write and maintain source code on your IBM i, iSeries or AS400 system, simply download and install the ‘Code for IBM i’ addon. Visual Studio Code …
IBM i 5250 Emulation (aka IBM® i Access for Web) So what does IBM say about this? IBM® i Access for Web provides a set of Java™ servlets to access IBM i resources through a browser interface. These servlets run in a Web application server environment on a system running IBM i. IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM integrated …
Download Install or Upgrade CNX Valence Fresh in my email this morning, I had a notice from the propellor heads at CNX that a new fixpack was released. This includes a number of enhancements that I have requested so I’m intrigued to see it in action. Download the latest Valence 6 maintenance build Valence 6 build …
Playing with a RPG Subfile Poking around on the filthiest corners of the IBM i Programmers internet this morning, I stumbled across someone else’s sample subfile template for an RPG program. This is quite an old-style RPG program (it looks like it’s from around 2012) but should still work well today. It looks quite nice, …
Free Form RPG ILE Logic Example I was recording a screencast about modernizing some old RPG400 to ILE RPG this morning and had to knock up this little code example showing the difference between legacy RPG400 code and modern RPG ILE code. Note, this is not an example of good code (it’s crappy old RPG …
I read this article (written by Scott Klement) a few years ago and it was a great intro to the principles of using a webservice to read data on another computer in the cloud. Fast forward to this week, and since I’ve just written a webservice control procedure, I was looking for this document to …
