IBM 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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IBM i , Software Change Management
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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IBM 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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IBM i , Software Change Management , Turnover
Wow – that’s another long url title. I really wanted to call this “How To Check Out An Object From One Library And Promote It To A Different Library but keep the program source code line change dates” but that just seemed to ridiculously long. Why are we talking about this? We all know there are […]
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IBM i , Programming , Software Change Management
DevOps helps businesses respond to business, project and market changes quickly and fluidly. I’m not sure if fluidly is a word, but if its not, well, it should be. Devops focuses on many smaller high-quality software updates being rolled to users with a rapid schedule. Using continuous delivery and continuous testing to reduce risk, garner […]
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IBM i , Software Change Management , Turnover
I really like the Softlanding (aka Unicom) TURNOVER Graphical Editor. It’s simple to use, not as clunky and old fashioned as the terminal based green screen menus and it’s just simple. Being simple myself, I like simple. 😉 Some people love the graphical editor. Some dinosaurs people love the green screen terminal mode editor. With […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Software Change Management
OK. I will admit that I’m a fan of IBM i ACS, it’s a long awaited breath of fresh air and a great replacement for the old AS400 Client Access connectivity suite. So when I foggily log on to my windows machine, gulping the mornings first scalding mouthful of todays (slightly dodgy tasting if truth be […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming , RPG , Software Change Management
When I was a lad – you read the newspaper for news, you talked to neighbors to network and find the local gossip, you watched TV or went to the Cinema for movies. Nowadays, it’s all done on computers and it’s us programmers that create, nurse and stroke this things called computer programs. How you […]
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IBM i , Programming , Software Change Management , Turnover
Earlier, I was explaining how to use TURNOVER Change Management to some RPG Developers who have spent years using Turnover but who had never used the Programmer Worklist Function. I was mildly surprised at the manual technique that was being used to check out each object, adding to a form source member by source member […]
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iSeries , AS400 , IBM i , Programming , RPG , Software Change Management
Twenty years ago… I was typing on a dumb terminal, connected to a great big beige computer called IBM AS/400 with a thick grey Twinax cable. Screens were green on black, text only — or sometimes orange on black if you were posh. The internet was this thing we used to send emails (if you knew […]
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