IBM i , IFS , Programming
An interesting question was lobbed at me this morning – “How can I change the data change timestamp in an ifs file?” One of the good folks over at Tire Rack (the software developers, not the blokes that change the tires) asked if I knew a way to update the timestamp for the data changed […]
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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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So, yesterday I added a neat little snippet to my Control Language Program on this #IBMi system, and re-awakened an irritating feature thats bitten me before. I slept badly last night with this problem niggling away in my brain. But awoke to a bright chilly Las Vegas morning with a steamy coffee and a solution […]
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This morning I wanted to find a quick and dirty way to “Scan Replace text in IFS” files without writing a program to do it…. SPOILER ALERT – it’s really really insanely simple using JAVA QSHELL and the SED command So, before I start into techno-babble mode, here is some background of why I’m looking […]
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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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In the middle of this RPG program, I want to reformat and replace some values in a big long address field. But for the life of me… I cant remember how to use the SCANREPLACE built in function in RPG. #Dingbat /me memory circuits need a service methinks. So, like all programmers, I wonder off to […]
More WaffleAS400 , IBM i , IFS , iSeries , Programming
Over recent years, I’ve been playing with the IBM i Integrated File System a lot more than usual. The IFS allows us to use and easily share IBM i Data with Windows/Linux/Apple or just about any other computer on the network. It basically shares native IBM i (AS400) data with the windows world so that […]
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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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So, as part of an IBM-i project to “rebuild a bunch of source libraries on the development machine” I always think about backups before touching things. Not because I have history of deleting things (while in rampant house keeping mode) and then regretting it later… we would never do that right? *cough* So, since I […]
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The IFS is probably one of my favorite things about IBM i. The Integrated File System (IFS) is a layer of software that lets the rest of your ‘Windows’ World talk directly to that big Black IBM Super Server in the corner. The beauty of it is…. those widows machines don’t even know they are talking […]
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