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Tinkering with one of my wordpress sites I noticed that Jetpack was unable to connect. The WordPress Jetpack Error says “Server unable to connect with my site http 404” which is nicely vague. Luckily, the excellent support guys over at ICDSOFT quickly gave me the solution: 1: Log into the control panel obviously your control …
IBM i, Programming, RPG, SQL, Webservice
Substring in RPGLE SQL This morning, I had to make a little change to an RPG4 program to let it respond to a new parameter being passed into it via JSON. This value had to be stored in the first character of a field in a physical file in the database. Simple Logic and we …
IBM i, Programming, RPG, SQL, Webservice
So, I was searching for information on JSON versus JSONP and, more specifically, how to handle JSONP with IBM i Y.A.J.L and I stumbled across this old archived website. The actual domain is dead, but I found this information on the internet way back when archive site. It’s worth saving – so here it is! …
I was talking about RPG OA today. If you’re an IBM i techie, then you will know about OA already. You probably understand its power and potential in our IBM-i world. If you’re a bit more old school, you’ve been churning out column-based code for years, or you are living under a rock in a …
IBM i, IFS, Programming, SQL, Webservice
Most IBM i shops using webservices to talk to the Internet, will convert the data they are sharing into a web-service format like XML or JSON before sending it out. Obviously the responses will be in the same format and they need to convert it back into native IBM i format to use it. That …
If you are an RPG Programmer thern you can quite easily add C# to the list of progamming languages you have in your brainbox. It’s a very similar syntax. Checkout the latest C# For RPGers TechTip and check out the similarities between C# and RPG loops: http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/programming-other/c-for-rpgers-taking-c-loops-for-a-spin The missing piece to the basic C# language …
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 …
JSON vs XML vs CSV These acronyms can sound like an alien language to people learning to become programmers and especially to established old-school green screen programmers (with the greatest respect to my AS400 and iSeries colleagues) Don’t worry – all these new terms can be totally baffling! Let’s break them down into simple explanations: …
Yesterday, I wrote a little SQLRPGLE web-service program to retrieve System21 Picking details . Days like this I really enjoy my job. Writing new programs in RPG is fun, good old fashioned fun. It ran perfectly with the handful of test data that I had to play with. But today I am testing it and …
Ever wanted to validate or syntax check JSON from within RDi? It’s easy using the free JSON editor from the Eclipse marketplace. This JSON Plugin for RDI will validate, syntax check and polish your JSON layouts with ease. To start you have to go into RDI and get into Eclipse’s Market Place. That will bring up …
What are webservices? Broadly speaking “Web Services” are programs that let one computer system talk to another computer system over the internet. Today, Web Services are self-contained, self-described, component applications that can be published, located, and invoked across the Web. Web Services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications running on a …
IBM Rational Developer (RDi) is good but bloody expensive! If you are reading this blog then chances are you are (a) an RPG Programmer and (b) using SEU to edit your code and (c) you are frustrated that SEU wont syntax check new RPG anymore! It’s time to leap into an RPG EDITOR or be pushed… RDi …
