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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 …
What is a 5250 Terminal Emulator? In a previous blog about 5250 Emulators: The IBM i System (aka i5 aka iSeries aka AS/400) uses something called 5250 to stream its data to a terminal, often called a green screen. You’ve seen these clunky old terminals in black and white sci-fi movies – well we still …
IBM i, Programming, RPG, SQL
Let’s look at a quick little example RPG email validation program – SQLRPGLE ILE There are lots of code snippets, example programs, and long waffling discussions in internet land filled with pointy-headed AS400, Series, and IBM i programmer chaps (and chappettes) arguing about the best way to “validate an email address in RPG”. I know …
So, a chum of mine on social media just posted this link for the first public presentation from his IBM i Startup called iThusiasm. Looks interesting and I’ve signed up. Why not dive right in? Me. Feeling ithusiastic. 😉 What and Who is iThusiasm? iThusiasm is proudly presenting our inaugural meeting for IBM I professionals! …
Turnover Pre-Run and Post-Run When we are promoting changed objects, using Soflanding TURNOVER, we sometimes want to run commands before or after the form runs. These pre-run and post-run commands are easy to add to any form, so lets look at how to do it! How do we add a Pre-Run or Post-Run in TURNOVER? …
Artificial Intelligence can be Artificial Stupidity when sending spam mail This morning I had a quick browse of my email junk folder looking for those sometimes incorrectly flagged spam mails. I saw this flagged spam mail from Grill Insiders. It’s a proper spam mail, automatically generated by Grill Insiders email generator that obviously needs a …
IBM RDi Rational Developer Ports What TCPIP ports are used by IBM RD/i? I’ve been struggling to get Rational Developer working while remote during the ‘Rona. While I’m working locked in my cellar, candles flickering, dogs growling and rats a scurrying, my laptop is connected with VPN and my guess is that VPN is blocking …
Use the Retrieve Job Attribute (RTVJOBA) command to snaffle the job’s run type from the attributes. Seems pretty obvious right? One little niggle was that the RTVJOBA passes back a char(1) value for the jobtype where ‘0’ means batch and ‘1’ means interactive. But, I want to be able to neatly compare a logical value …
What is IBM i HTTPAPI? HTTPAPI is an IBM i library (LIBHTTP) containing a full set of API’s allowing any IBM i programmer to write webservices to read, write and tinker (those are technical terms) with cloud based applications. YES – using the Opensource HTTPAPI application you can easily read and write to Cloud Webservices …
AS400, IBM i, iSeries, Programming, RPG
I was discussing the benefits of RDi with a colleague this morning (I’m a bit of a Rational Developer fanboy) because he is trying to justify the huge annual cost of the tool with The Management: nearly $1000 per year per person! A price tag that is #bloodypreposterous. But, I will rant about that in …
The content of this document was last updated on: March 29, 2019 Contents: 1.0 Introduction2.0 Installation for Windows3.0 Installation for Mac4.0 Installation for Linux5.0 Installing Updates6.0 More Information7.0 Uninstall 1.0 Introduction This guide provides instructions on how to deploy this product on a local disk drive for a single user. There are a variety of …
Now that’s a mouthful! So, I’ve been asked to install the latest July 2019 version of Lansa Axes (v4.2.0) for a client. Axes is a web application, running on your IBM i Server, which will replace old traditional green-screen 5250 terminal screens like this: to this: Remove any previous versions of LANSA AXES GO LICPGM …