I was talking about RPG OA today. If you’re an IBM i techie, then you will know about OA already. You probably understand its power and potential in our IBM-i world. If you’re a bit more old school, you’ve been churning out column-based code for years, or you are living under a rock in a

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What are webservices? Broadly speaking “Web Services” are programs that let one computer system talk to another computer system over the internet. For example, you might want to enter customer details into a office computer system and have those customer details be checked on an online ‘address checking’ website or something similar. Today, Web Services

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Example RPGLE web service program [SOAP] Here is a quick little example RPGLE web service – it’s written in RPG, the SQLRPGLE flavor and simply reads a file (the System/21 Stockroom master file — INP20) and returns a multi-occurrence data structure (array) of the stockrooms that the user is authorized to use. #hopeithelpssomebody WEBGETSTR –

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Over recent years I’ve become increasingly focused on connecting IBM i Systems to the Internet – aka cloud for you trendy peeps. We live in an internet connected world and the requirements for a business to plug their back-office Power Servers into this big cloud is rapidly becoming a standard. With the huge increase in

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