This morning I had an email from a blog subscriber ( Hi Rick! ) asking for a code tips on how to cleanup IFS file names to remove erroneous characters and/or malformed directory name slashes. Rather than reply with a plethora of programming options — here is an old, but functional, RPG code snippet that […]
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Email an OUTQ – should be simple? Here you are, you have this output queue filled with reports and you want to email them to your Boss/Colleague/whoever! You dont really want them in smelly old text format you want them to look nice in something like PDF format…. That should be easy right? IBM i […]
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Discussing a data interchange process with a software vendor today (who shall remain nameless), they told me that their product could talk to an AS400 but had no experience of iSeries or IBM i…. *sigh* I am not telling you the company name because I don’t wan to to embarrass them in public… but if […]
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Now, before you get all bent out of shape and point your grubby little index finger at me cackling “you called it an AS400 na-na-nu-na-naaah“, I do have a legitimate reason. It’s a shallow SEO based one (the grey haired brigade keep searching for “zip AS400 library”) but it’s legitimate. I only used the wrong […]
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So, last night I was nosing around in the dim dark corners of an old network share on my homeserver. I stumbled across an old TXT document from the late 90’s, I think. It was sitting in a text file called “AS400 Quiz Brainteasers” -it’s obviously old (look at the as400 model numbers question). It […]
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Modernizing RPG Programs – Learn the RPG History first I had email email from an old work colleague this morning. He was a windows programmer, with limited exposure to RPG, but works in a company that is driven by a huge, old, complex RPG3 application that has changed little over the last decade. He is […]
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I frequently see this question in places like Quora, and it’s both simple and complicated to answer. Simple because the AS/400 just doesn’t exist anymore. Complicated because, rather stupidly many current day programmers frequently call the IBM i System – “The AS400”. Sounds crazy right? Who uses the AS/400 anymore? I doubt anyone is using the […]
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If the phrase “Free IBM i system” sounds too good to be true, then you just might have come to the right place. Try the machine that replaced the AS400 and iSeries for free! Do you want to try the latest IBM i operating system version for free? Do you want to try out the […]
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I used to be an AS400 RPG Programmer – What am I now? I’m an IT Consultant (aka RPG Programmer) primarily working on IBM Power Systems (IBM i, System-i, iSeries, AS400). I’ve worked with the IBM AS400 (iSeries, IBMi) for twenty years and specialize in all variants of the RPG/CL language as well as detailed […]
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For a couple of years now, I’ve used this little EMLOUTQ utility program (written in IBM i Control Language) to read through an output queue and email each and every spool file as a plain text file. It’s useful but old and a little tired looking. Luckily for me, a quite week means I get […]
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