IBM i , Programming , RPG , Webservice
What is IBM i HTTPAPI? HTTPAPI is an IBM i library (LIBHTTP) containing a full set of API’s allowing any IBM i programmer to write webservices to read, write and tinker (those are technical terms) with cloud based applications. For example, you could use the HTTPAPI library to easily add some code to an RPG […]
More WaffleAS400 , IBM i , iSeries , Programming , RPG
As I was waffling this morning about the sad demise of IBM Developerworks Connections Wiki – here is another excellent article that discusses various extensions to IBM Rational Developer for IBM i – How to Extend RDi (#RDi) So here it is, re-posted before IBM can hide this wonderful source of old information: Write your […]
More WaffleAS400 , IBM i , iSeries , Programming , RPG
I was discussing the benefits of RDi with a colleague this morning (I’m a bit of a Rational Developer fanboy) because he is trying to justify the huge annual cost of the tool with The Management: nearly $1000 per year per person! A price tag that is #bloodypreposterous. But, I will rant about that in […]
More WaffleIBM i , Software Change Management , Turnover
So – today I was talking to colleague who wanted to make a database change to a big old file. This meant changing one of the fields from 7 numeric to 12 alpha. Sounds simple right? Oh if only life were that simple… Now add the complexity that you have to do this change in […]
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I’ve been chatting with a client of mine about sending emails from his AS400 iSeries Power IBM-i System. More specifically about sending emails from his system, but with the email address of the user that is signed on. This emails send but frequently go to spam. Luckily, setting up IBM i Email and SPF will […]
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Updating any numeric DTAARA in RPGLE is slightly different in RPG /FREEFORMAT than in the good old fashioned column based RPG/400. Using RPG ILE, data structures are treated as character data. The nature of a data area is that its a string of data that can contain a mixture of various data formats. If we […]
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Submitting jobs from within IBM i Control Language programs is a doddle. But sometimes we want to know the job name, or job queue, that the job was submitted with. This is easy to do in CL, and since my colleague John “who’s surname cant be mentioned or else it will give him an internet […]
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Bloody Annual License Codes If you have ever scratched your head wondering how to set the license key in SOFTLANDING SOFTMENU then you have joined my club: I googled, binged, ducked ducked and went for an answer to “how to add authorization code to softlandings softmenu” until I was blue in the face, impatiently tapping […]
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Over on the RPG Cafe website, a nice chap called Smit Dixit published a sample of his RPGLE code calculating the Levenshtein distance between two words. What is the Levenshtein Distance? The Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring difference between two sequences. Informally, the Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number […]
More WaffleIBM i , Software Change Management , SQL , Turnover
One of the mumbling, drooling, gray haired programmers on my team asked me to peer review his code this morning. This was for a simple SQL table to be created and promoted through multiple environments using TURNOVER. The code looked something like this: CREATE TABLE MYLIB/TESTSQL ( TSTFLD CHAR(10) CCSID 37 NOT NULL DEFAULT ” […]
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