- 1351. Profound Logic Software to Announce Profound UI 5.0 at COMMON 2014 Conference in Orlando, FL
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- ... foremost in mind. In addition to Profound UI’s traditional support for RPG Open Access and Rich Display Files, the solution will: - Streamline the support for green screen display files alongside Rich ...
- Created on 29 April 2014
- 1352. Versions 9.1 of IBM Rational Developer for i and IBM Rational Developer for AIX and Linux
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- ... and Linux deliver significant new capabilities. Highlights include: Rational Developer for i: Enhancements to the basic development tools to support the expanded scope of RPG free-form ...
- Created on 29 April 2014
- 1353. ASNA Presents the 15th ASNApalooza Developer Conference in San Antonio, Texas
- (Certification / Training)
- The Palooza theme this year is RPG: Something for Everybody. The 15th ASNApalooza, ASNA's Developer Conference, will be held in San Antonio on October 20th and 21st this year. The conference hotel ...
- Created on 24 April 2014
- 1354. In the Wheelhouse: IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 8 Announced
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... probably the next IBM HTTP Group PTF. Other software updates included in the IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 8 announcement are to DB2 on i and free-form RPG enhancements to Rational Developer for i ...
- Created on 21 April 2014
- 1355. The API Corner: Accessing System Information
- (APIs)
- It's easy with the Materialize Machine Attributes MI instruction. Written by Bruce Vining While RPG application developers can easily access job-related information, such as the current job date (special ...
- Created on 16 April 2014
- 1356. IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 8 Offers Performance, Usability, and Integration Enhancements
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- ... provides new function in its IBM i Application Development tools, including free-format support for RPG, which allows developers to use the Eclipse-based tool as a development platform. The WebSphere ...
- Created on 09 April 2014
- 1357. Finally! Ruby on Rails on IBM i!
- (Web Languages)
- ... from what I'm used to seeing in either PHP or RPG, although it's not that freaky. And, in fairness, you can do this whole "Hello World" thing with just a single statement where you hard code the verbiage. ...
- Created on 09 April 2014
- 1358. In the Wheelhouse: Redbooks and Polar Bears
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... security, PHP, EGL, Java, the modern RPG language, Ruby, JavaScript, and CSS are a must-read for every IBM i developer. Note I didn't write any IBM i developer. Every IBM i developer needs to understand ...
- Created on 07 April 2014
- 1359. Practical ILE: Building Your Service Program Library, Part 1
- (RPG)
- ... the way we RPG programmers think. The changes in the language over the last 10 years have certainly made it easier, but changes in the language don't always translate to changes in our thinking. But let ...
- Created on 02 April 2014
- 1360. Fresche Legacy R&D Efforts Translate Into Gains for Companies With Business Apps and Data on IBM i
- (Document Management)
- ... export of business rules from legacy code Over recent years, customer modernization projects have driven demand for better control and reuse of business rules embedded in legacy RPG, COBOL and CA 2E ...
- Created on 27 March 2014
- 1361. Profound Logic Issued Patent for Browser-Based Development Tools
- (Channel News)
- ... first conceived this technology because we wanted to come up with an easy way for RPG developers to design Web interfaces for IBM i applications,” explains Profound Logic CEO, Alex Roytman. “We came up ...
- Created on 25 March 2014
- 1362. The API Corner: Saving Individual User Profiles
- (APIs)
- ... ********************************************************** /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qsr /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 19 March 2014
- 1363. Technology Focus: Are CRM Apps Converging with BI Apps?
- (Customer Relationship Management)
- ... Touchtone Corporation Wintouch eCRM Wintouch eCRM is written in RPG, uses a Java applet for Web access, and runs under i5/OS, AIX, and Linux. It supports client/server operations, tracks all ...
- Created on 17 March 2014
- 1364. CNX Announces Release of Valence Framework 4.0
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... integration, the output of an RPG program can be imported as a data model, significantly reducing the amount of front-end coding required to set up components such as grids or charts. “You can even see ...
- Created on 17 March 2014
- 1365. Can an ILE CL Program Know the Number of Parameters Passed to It?
- (CL)
- ... program can be changed dynamically. As you might know, an ILE RPG program can retrieve of the length of the parameter list via the RPG %PARMS built-in function (BIF). An ILE C program can also achieve ...
- Created on 04 March 2014
- 1366. Partner TechTip: Convert Queries for Increased Performance and Modern Results
- (DB2)
- ... SEQUEL is much faster than writing programs. For example, an RPG report program might take four or five hours to create and compile. Using SEQUEL, the same report could take 45 minutes and require no compiling. ...
- Created on 27 February 2014
- 1367. The API Corner: Determining How Many and What Jobs Are Currently Active
- (APIs)
- ... member JobChksPR of QRPGLESRC. The updated source for JobChksPR is this: /if not defined(JobChks_Prototypes) d JobActive ...
- Created on 18 February 2014
- 1368. Book Review: Developing Web 2.0 Applications with EGL for IBM i
- (Web Languages)
- It's everything you need to know, from the bottom up. Written by Mike Myers Let me first explain a little about myself. I wrote my first program in 1982 on a System/34 (RPG II). Two years later, I was ...
- Created on 06 February 2014
- 1369. Midrange Dynamics Change Management Version 7.1.2 Highlights
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... within standard Eclipse IDEs, Version 7.1.2 automatically opens an editor based on file type mapping in the developer’s workspace preferences. For an RPG or COBOL programmer using MDOpen, editing ...
- Created on 06 February 2014
- 1370. Discover the Suspend Object (SUSOBJ) MI Instruction
- (RPG)
- ... size field (in units of 512 bytes) at offset 2 from the beginning of a segment. 4.Suspend program MYPG with a SAVOBJ STG(*FREE) command. 5.Repeat steps 1 through 3. 6.Compile and run an RPG program ...
- Created on 04 February 2014
- 1371. Technology Focus: Utensils for Building "Delicious" Server App
- (General)
- ... and a smaller group is building new applications while leveraging existing RPG code. We do expect there to be a lot of growth in the mobile development area, which increased for us throughout 2013." ...
- Created on 31 January 2014
- 1372. BCD Releases WebSmart 10.1
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- BCD announces the release of WebSmart 10.1, their rapid development tool for creating PHP or RPG desktop and mobile web applications. BCD announces the release of WebSmart 10.1, their rapid development ...
- Created on 31 January 2014
- 1373. Women in IT: The Past, the Present, and the Future
- (General)
- ... processing jobs, taking more college courses along the way. In 1983 she was promoted to Data Processing Manager, working on an IBM System 34 writing RPG II. At the time, she was one of only a handful ...
- Created on 22 January 2014
- 1374. Software Change Management Tailored for Small Development Shops
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... called TD/OMS Compact. The new product is dedicated to small IBM i development shops and teams that need an easy to use tool for their RPG, RPG ILE and/or Java development at an affordable price. The solution ...
- Created on 17 January 2014
- 1375. Simon's Solutions: Talk with REXX Program
- (RPG)
- ... IBM i community a lot about the REstructured eXtended eXecutor (REXX) language. For example, in the following post in the RPG400-L mailing list, Simon demonstrated the simplicity and ease of use of this ...
- Created on 14 January 2014
- 1376. TechTip: Program Messages 101
- (RPG)
- Program messages are a fundamental part of the operating system, and the more you know about them the better. Written by Joe Pluta RPG has come a long way from its original, standalone report-generation ...
- Created on 09 January 2014
- 1377. Book Review: The Remote System Explorer
- (Development Tools)
- This book speaks directly to the thousands of IBM i programmers who develop in RPG, COBOL, CL, and DDS every day. Written by Susan Gantner Whether you're an RSE neophyte, an experienced RSE user, or ...
- Created on 09 January 2014
- 1378. In the Wheelhouse: What Can We Do for IBM i in 2014?
- (Commentary)
- ... i install base is falling apart at the seams, with companies dropping the platform like a bad habit. They see RPG as a dead language although it literally had major updates as recently as a few weeks ago. ...
- Created on 05 January 2014
- 1379. Book Review: IBM System i APIs at Work, Second Edition
- (APIs)
- API expert Bruce Vining delivers the only comprehensive guide to APIs. Written by Jon Paris Although I have rarely had problems using the C-style APIs from RPG, for some strange reason, the system ...
- Created on 02 January 2014
- 1380. TechTip: Dynamic Menu Using Tree Data Structure
- (System Administration)
- ... EndIf C Eval SavCurrPGM = InpFrom C Return SavSI P E Listing 6: Load Screen array It must be noted that the ...
- Created on 19 December 2013
- 1381. What Everyone Should Know: Where to Start
- (General)
- ... overloaded day? Yeah, me too, and I am easily depressed to begin with, so it wreaks havoc with my id. But I can't escape it. The days of being able to secure your job just by knowing RPG ...
- Created on 17 December 2013
- 1382. The API Corner: Determining Whether Jobs Are Currently Active
- (APIs)
- ... life for our application developers, we'll also provide a source member in QRPGLESRC named JobChksPR. This member will provide the prototype for JobActive and can be copied into the application source using ...
- Created on 17 December 2013
- 1383. Technology Focus: Expanding Data Intensifies Database Maintenance Tasks
- (Business Intelligence)
- ... the largest value that a four-byte binary field in RPG-ILE could handle. We are looking at other possible ways to handle this in the future as well." In responding to the future demands of Big Data ...
- Created on 15 December 2013
- 1384. TechTip: Add Lock Detection to Your DB2 for i Arsenal
- (DB2)
- ... high-level language (HLL) programs such as RPG, C, Java, and COBOL changed all of that. Now, HLL routines can bridge the gap by allowing SQL access to the functionality of APIs and libraries of code. HLL ...
- Created on 12 December 2013
- 1385. WebSmart 10 Introduces Mobile PHP and Object-Oriented DB2 Templates
- (Mobile Solutions)
- ... is the first release that uses one version number for the entire WebSmart family (WebSmart PHP, ILE and Clover). WebSmart Mobile PHP RPG programmers can now create a mobile PHP web application over ...
- Created on 05 December 2013
- 1386. Investigate the Undocumented _LSPCO System Built-in
- (RPG)
- ... origin of the space via a space pointer. The prototypes of _LSPCO declared in ILE C and ILE RPG are the following, respectively: ILE C # pragma linkage(_LSPCO, builtin) void* ...
- Created on 03 December 2013
- 1387. LongRange Simplifies Offline Support for Mobile Applications
- (Mobile Solutions)
- ... capabilities in the newest release of its mobile development tool, LongRange. The updated offline data storage and server synchronization allows RPG/COBOL developers to deliver native mobile applications ...
- Created on 21 November 2013
- 1388. PHP: Variables, Arrays, and Functions: The Final Chapter
- (Web Languages)
- ... an array is a variable (so it starts with a $) and that there are really two types of arrays: numeric and associative. Numeric arrays are the kind of array that we are most familiar with in RPG. ...
- Created on 19 November 2013
- 1389. The API Corner: Verifying That Nothing Has Changed, Part 2
- (APIs)
- ... /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qc3cci /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 19 November 2013
- 1390. TechTip: Streamline Your Migration to SQL
- (SQL)
- ... it easier to utilize SQL in CL programs with the RUNSQL command and to access SQL-created tables from RPG programs with the new RCDFMT keyword. TR7's enhanced SQL Field Reference information and Generate ...
- Created on 14 November 2013
- 1391. Application Lifecycle Management: Some Definitions (and Misconceptions)
- (Change Management)
- ... introduces team collaboration features to the platform and manages native languages such as RPG and COBOL. RTC for i is shipped as an installable component for Rational Developer for i (RDi). However, ...
- Created on 10 November 2013
- 1392. Manage Automatic Storage Dynamically via Modify Automatic Storage Allocation (MODASA)
- (RPG)
- Learn the fantastic automatic storage frame (ASF)-operating MI instruction and the implementation details behind it. Written by Junlei Li From the point of view of a programmer, the ability to change ...
- Created on 05 November 2013
- 1393. BCD’s New Presto 5 Gives Your IBM i Green Screens an Even More Modern Web GUI
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... give green screens a rich web GUI that is accessible from browsers on PCs and mobile devices. It transforms all green screens (RPG and COBOL programs, menus, third party and system screens) to web pages ...
- Created on 31 October 2013
- 1394. System i Developer Expands Free iAdvocate Resource Library
- (Certification / Training)
- ... of the vignettes during his Keynote address at the RPG & DB2 Summit on October 15. Other iAdvocate resources include new benchmark results for SAP on IBM i as well as independent cost/benefit research ...
- Created on 30 October 2013
- 1395. Profound Logic Demonstrates IBM i Modernization Solutions at IBM Enterprise Systems 2013 Conference
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... Profound UI and RPG Open Access Tuesday, October 22, 8:00 - 8:45 AM, Beekman Room See how easy (and fun!) it can be to create modern, web and mobile applications using your RPG or PHP code, RPG Open Access ...
- Created on 21 October 2013
- 1396. PHP: Variables, Arrays, and Functions, Part 3
- (Scripting)
- ... The first is the numeric array, which is just a simple array. It can have x number of values, and each value is subscripted by a number starting with 0 (not 1 like RPG). You define the array just as ...
- Created on 16 October 2013
- 1397. The API Corner: Verifying That Nothing Has Changed
- (APIs)
- ... /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qc3cci /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 16 October 2013
- 1398. Announcing PowerRuby
- (Programming Languages)
- ... all nonnative languages to easily access IBM i resources, including RPG programs. A team of developers from the IBM i and other communities came together to develop PowerRuby and IBM has thrown its ...
- Created on 08 October 2013
- 1399. ARCAD Software and BCD Announce Strategic Technology Partnership in Enterprise Modernization
- (Mergers / Acquisitions)
- ... solutions, WebSmart ILE and PHP. Both WebSmart editions help IBM i and other programmers develop new desktop and mobile web applications while leveraging their RPG skills and minimizing the web development ...
- Created on 04 October 2013
- 1400. A More Complete View of the Machine Interface of IBM i
- (RPG)
- ... system built-in information in QWXCRTMD. Now let's go through the steps of Gene's solution one by one and implement these steps in CL and RPG. As mentioned in Gene's post, some of the "specific values" ...
- Created on 02 October 2013