IBM i, AS400, Programming

Ignore naughty special characters- Java and IBMi might get upset!

Naughty Special Characters – from Dollars to Pounds. Another IBM I Developer was having this weird problem with an IFS file. Trying to figure out the code page problems with a file that had been emailed from a British IBM i Server. naughty special characters- Java and IBMi might get upset! When the Java QSHELL command …

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IBM i, Programming, RPG, Software Change Management, Webservice, Website

RPGLE Webservices – RPGLE Converting Character to Numeric

I’m in the final stages of a fun project writing web-services to interface INFOR System21 (on an IBM i aka AS400) with ACSIS Visitrack (on Windows Server), we are consuming (receiving) and serving (sending) all data in a standard alphameric layout But… as any RPG programmer will know… the conversion between alpha to numeric is …

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