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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Download RDi Second Cup of Coffee – Check. Consumed Doughnut – Check. Removed crumbs and sticky remnants of doughnut from laptop keyboard – Check. And Face – Check. Calendar confirms that todays the day IBM release #IBMi RDi 9.6 – Check. Lets got and grab it – Check. 🙂 I’ve been running RDi 9.5.1.2 for

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Upgrade old RPG source code — aka refactoring — is a fun past time There are frequent little code snippets that I refactor over and over again. Some look similar but some look very different in modern language style. It’s perhaps worth documenting them in case someone else is trying to figure out alternative ways

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Install Turnover V100 Software Change Management Application Grab the latest Turnover ZIP file from your supplied IBM i CD or from http://support.softlanding.com This zip file contains the IBM i software for TURNOVER® for iSeries v100. Lets do this! Follow these steps to load the T100INST installation library. Each step is explained in detail in the

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(follow on article from part 2) Let’s review what we have done: We have cleaned up the old Drupal 6 website to make it as minimal, clean, and fully functional as possible. It’s just housekeeping and a good thing. We have installed an empty Drupal 7 content management system in a new web server (or

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Las month my cousin, drumming demi-god Rob Litten asked me to help him upgrade his website. He has been running a very successful online drumming sensation called Drums The Word for a few years now. It’s a Drupal 6 eCommerce website running Ubercart focused on selling digital products — downloadable videos and drum lessons. We

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Upgrade RPG3 before its too late Many IBM Power i machines have been running steadily for years without business interruption. The hardware is incredibly resilient but development environments are in need of upgrading. The nature of the machine means applications written ten to twenty years ago are still running strong, so the need for change

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