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

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Rational Developer for IBM i 9.6 Fixpack 7 is now available! The 9.6.0.7 fixpack contains some nice little enhancements and fixes! One feature really caught my eye- The New extract procedure refactoring feature, used to convert business rules into reusable procedures in RPG sounds a bit saucy. How does ‘Refactor Extract Procedure‘ work? We select

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Using SQLRPGLE to Validate email addresses in IBM i Following on from my previous blog (basic email validation) I decided that it would much nicer to (a) have the regex stored in a data area so that we can easily play with it to try different validation scenarios and (b) lets have a shot at

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HOW TO UPLOAD SAVF to IBM i Systems If you don’t use FTP anymore (or if FTP has been blocked by your network team) the easiest technique is to upload your SAVF to your IBM i’s Integrated File System and then copy it direct into a *SAVF — using IBM I Access Client Solutions. Launch

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OK. I will admit that I’m a fan of IBM i ACS, it’s a long awaited breath of fresh air and a great replacement for the old AS400 Client Access connectivity suite. So when I foggily log on to my windows machine, gulping the mornings first scalding mouthful of todays (slightly dodgy tasting if truth be

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So, yesterday I added a neat little snippet to my Control Language Program on this #IBMi system, and re-awakened an irritating feature thats bitten me before. I slept badly last night with this problem niggling away in my brain. But awoke to a bright chilly Las Vegas morning with a steamy coffee and a solution

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Internet fact #173 – If you make RPGLE lowercase it looks a lot prettier! If you’ve ever read any of my many waffling techno-blogs about programming with the RPG language you will know that I have a bit of a love/hate relationship IBM’s Rational Developer code editor. But, just sometimes it does really small, but

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The AS/400 does not exist anymore Discussing a data interchange process with a software vendor today (who shall remain nameless), they told me: … our product talks to AS400 but I don’t think it has experience of iSeries or IBM i…. Customer Support Bloke for XYZ Company *sigh* I am not telling you the company

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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

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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

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IBM RDi is a great IDE for IBM i Programmers writing source code in RPG, RPGLE or CL. But, setting up the editors RDi library list is not that obvious acronym alert — (1) RDi is IBM’s Rational Developer for IBM i and (2) IDE is Integrated Development Environment – just a poncy way of

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So, I was trying to help out a buddy in the land of IBM i today. He was trying to install the most recent Beta of Projex4i IBM i Powertools on a clients IBM i Server. The problem he was facing was two fold (a) the connection he was using was very slow so trying

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