Last night was I was chatting to an old programming chum in Chicago. As you may be aware, for most people in the AS400/iSeries/IBM-i arena the term “old programming chum” automatically implies a gray haired old fart wearing frayed cords, cheap (but comfortable!) shoes and excessively dour facial features with a slightly “smarter than thou”

Read More

Let’s play with RDi and CL! I was happily editing some CLP code in RDi and very pleased with the Rational Developers automatic code reformatting: stretching out my Control Language code to fit the screen neatly. This is a nice enhancement to the code editing experience and blows the trusty old SEU workhorse out of

Read More

RDi V9.6 is here New Version 9.6 of Rational Developer for i (RDi) announced. It has lots of minor tweaks and a couple of major tweaks and at least one #NICKLITTENAPPROVED tweak (now we can press ENTER to split code lines). Rational Developer for i, V9.6 is finally compatible with Eclipse 4.6, providing new base

Read More

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

Read More

Want to disable RPGLE Live Parsing? “IBM Rdi” is arguably the best code editor for coding on IBM i. That’s pretty much a given. But, it’s still filled with little annoyances and things that make me groan. One, in particular, is the lagginess and freezing that comes when trying to edit very large programs using

Read More

JULY 2015 Update: I bit the bullet and bought IBM Rational Developer RDi a while ago. It’s a nice step up from the old WDSC client and it deffo runs faster, smoother and supports all the new opcodes that are being introduced to RPG over recent years. I highly recommend RDi to each and every RPG

Read More

Visual Studio with the Code 4 IBM i Plugin is my preferred RPG code development tool. Unlike IBM Rational Developer which is expensive but one could reluctantly argue that it’s worth the cost to access all the latest and greatest enhancements to the evolving RPG language direct from IBM. I wouldnt argue that 😉 Microsoft

Read More