December 5, 2018

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Lead Article - Programming

Practical RPG: QUSLOBJ, the Next Level of Object Information Retrieval

QUSLOBJ can be used as both an enhancement to and even a replacement for QUSROBJD, and this article shows you how.

By Joe Pluta

As I detailed in a previous article, QUSROBJD allows you to see all the details of an object. However, it is specifically designed to return the data for a single object. For example, if you want to get the information for all the programs in a library (is this foreshadowing?), you'd need to have a way to list all those objects. QUSLOBJ is one way to do that, and it provides two basic approaches.

Feature Article - Programming

RPG Academy - Modernization: Let’s Talk About the Benefits

Even if you get all the right answers, modernizing an application is still a big project. To get everybody on board, let’s talk about its benefits for you, your boss, and your company.

By Rafael Victória-Pereira



As you probably realized just from reading the previous articles of this subseries (listed at the end of this article), modernizing an “outdated” IBM i application is neither cheap nor easy. So, you’re probably wondering what’s in it for you. If you discuss it with your boss, I’m sure she or he will certainly ask the exact same question. So let’s review a few of the possible benefits from a modernization initiative.

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Node Webinar Series Pt. 1: The World of Node.js on IBM i

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Feature Article - Analytics & Cognitive

A Small Intro to Big Data, Part 2: Introducing the Hadoop Framework

It's time to continue our Big Data discussion. This article introduces the Hadoop framework, one of the most important and most commonly used tools in the Big Data world.

By Rafael Victoria-Pereira

In the previous article, I explained that the most widely accepted definition (if we can call it that) of Big Data is more data than you can manage (store, analyze, and so on) with some (usually high) intrinsic potential value. I also mentioned that these datasets are usually composed of one or more types of data-structured (think RDMS), unstructured (typically text data stored in log files), and a mix of the previous two (like JSON, for instance).

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