IBM i , Software Change Management , Turnover
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? […]
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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 […]
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Problem – ILEditor connection problem with PUB400 Yesterday, I was talking to a subscriber who had read my review of ILEditor and sent me an email saying the new version (1.6.8.0) does not work with PUB400 (the public domain IBM i systems) “Surely not” I thought me, thinking, in my brain So, we got online […]
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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 ports that RD/i needs for […]
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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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IBM i , Programming , RPG
This morning my nerdish IBM-i Chum Toby, pinged me a whatsapp challenge to write a little RPG code snippet to “extract invoice numbers” from a random string of data. So…. if you had a string ‘INV#10563592 DATED 12/17/19 SO#286045 NOT GOING’ and you knew that this is a shitty text file way of referencing an […]
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AS400 , IBM i , iSeries , Modernization , Programming
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 […]
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IBM i , Modernization , Programming
Lets start with a reasonably mixed RPGLE code example which is older style column based RPG400 for its variable definitions but then uplifts to RPGLE /FREE for its body code: Step1 – Run code through the Projex4i Code Moderniser. The Upgrade RPG Source command (UPGRPGSRC) will clean our code, converting it to fully /FREEFORMAT ILE […]
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IBM i , Modernization , Programming
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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IBM i , IFS , iSeries , Programming
I was updating a little RPG utility this morning to add some more detail to a spreadsheet it generated. Adding the Library Description will help the non-propeller heads who read this stuff. This is super easy to do with a single line of SQL added to your RPG program. What is this spreadsheet you are […]
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