- 1501. In the Wheelhouse: How Many Updates Did IBM Squeeze into IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 5?
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... more" by way of programs that work with XML such as RPG, PHP, Java, Ruby, and others. This is available on the HTTP Group PTFs I mentioned above due out on December 15, but if you want it right away, ...
- Created on 15 October 2012
- 1502. Technology Focus: Apps for Managing Your Customer Relationships
- (Customer Relationship Management)
- ... communications activities. Touchtone Corporation Wintouch eCRM Wintouch eCRM is written in RPG and uses a Java applet for Web access. It supports client/server operations, tracks all customer ...
- Created on 15 October 2012
- 1503. TechTip: Free Database Modernization Diagnostic Utility
- (DB2)
- ... application response times, greater data security, and greater openness to non-RPG applications. So what's involved with migrating your legacy database (or part of your database) to SQL DDL? ...
- Created on 12 October 2012
- 1504. The CL Corner: A CL Command to Scan for Characters
- (CL)
- Find characters within a variable. Written by Bruce Vining Last month, in "A CL-Based Implementation of RPG Built-in %Check," we built the command Check Characters (CHKCHR). The CHKCHR command returns ...
- Created on 05 October 2012
- 1505. Simon's Solutions: Monitor for End Job Operations, Part
- (RPG)
- ... Process Attributes (MATPRATR) MI instruction with option hex 19, hex 1B, and hex 1A, respectively. A tiny RPG program, t180.rpgle, which materializes the name of the problem phase program of an MI process, ...
- Created on 03 October 2012
- 1506. Steve Will, Michael Cain Teach "i Advocate" Skills at the Summit ...
- (Certification / Training)
- System i Developer, the consortium of top educators on IBM i development technologies, today announces two events at the upcoming RPG & DB2 Summit conference that are designed to arm attendees with the ...
- Created on 28 September 2012
- 1507. TechTip: Table API and Interactions: Generate Professional-Grade Charts in Your Programs, Part 10
- (General)
- ... new section is used to load the table package; think of it as a prototype declaration in RPG. Everything between the sections Column and OptionsEnd remained untouched. The Footer section, however, had ...
- Created on 28 September 2012
- 1508. The API Corner: Accessing System Values
- (APIs)
- ... stored in member LSTSYSVAL of source file QRPGLESRC, you can create the program using the command CRTBNDRPG PGM(LSTSYSVAL). h dftactgrp(*no) ...
- Created on 19 September 2012
- 1509. Technology Focus: Performance Monitoring and Tuning Solutions
- (System Administration)
- ... view of different layers and systems," agrees Aguirre. "Transactions today can be really complex and span through several pieces of middleware and stuff, including DB2 and WebSphere and RPG or COBOL and ...
- Created on 17 September 2012
- 1510. TechTip: Using C Functions, Part II
- (General)
- C functions provide capabilities that are useful to you as an RPG IV programmer. Written by Jim Martin Note: This article is an excerpt from the book Functions in Free-Format RPG IV, published by MC ...
- Created on 14 September 2012
- 1511. TechTip: jQuery Fundamentals, Part I
- (Web Languages)
- What should you, as an RPG programmer, know about jQuery? Written by Jan Jorgensen For a very long time, I've been writing about jQuery, and some of you might wonder why on earth I keep "preaching" about ...
- Created on 07 September 2012
- 1512. Yikes! It's CPF4131
- (RPG)
- ... CPF4131 might be one of the most frequently encountered error messages for a novice RPG programmer. Level-check errors occurring in a production environment may suggest poor change management. However, ...
- Created on 05 September 2012
- 1513. BCD and Zend Forge PHP Market Alliance
- (Development Tools)
- ... then becomes part of the equation. It's BCD's tool for making legacy green-screens available as Web pages. "As long as you're talking modular RPG, it's easy to interface such code with PHP apps via such solution ...
- Created on 31 August 2012
- 1514. TechTip: Using C Functions, Part I
- (General)
- ... from the book Functions in Free-Format RPG IV, published by MC Press. Most RPG programmers don't know the C programming language and avoid technical articles or discussions that have anything to do ...
- Created on 24 August 2012
- 1515. Understand Your Remote Git Repository Options and Choose the Best Solution for You
- (Linux / Open Source)
- ... Diversify Your Skills You'll find that my article content will become more diverse in areas of content, exploring into open source technologies and criss-crossing between RPG articles. I've been asked ...
- Created on 22 August 2012
- 1516. Gantner Releases Free RSE Quick Start Guide
- (Certification / Training)
- ... on IBM i development technologies and producers of the RPG & DB2 Summit conference, today announces that partner Susan Gantner, recognized expert and popular trainer on Remote System Explorer (RSE), has ...
- Created on 21 August 2012
- 1517. BCD and Zend Help IBM Clients Create Applications and Modernize Legacy Applications with PHP
- (Channel News)
- ... can modernize their existing applications on the IBM i with minimum risk and cost, and easily extend the skills of their existing team of RPG/COBOL developers. Increased customer demand for PHP solutions ...
- Created on 15 August 2012
- 1518. The API Corner: In Search of System Values
- (APIs)
- ... file, Extensible Markup Language (XML) describing the command. In today's article, we'll use the QCDRCMDD API to generate XML describing the command DSPSYSVAL and then use the RPG operation code XML-SAX ...
- Created on 15 August 2012
- 1519. TechTip: Analyze Your Programs and Applications, Part III
- (System Administration)
- ... the formats of these APIs. Retrieve Module Information (QBNRMODI) API Retrieve Program Information (QCLRPGMI) API Retrieve Service Program Information (QBNRSPGM) API List Module Information ...
- Created on 10 August 2012
- 1520. What Web 2.0 Development Skills Should an i Programmer Have?
- (Web Languages)
- Are you keeping up? Do you even know where to start? Written by David Shirey Remember when being a triple threat meant RPG-DDS-CL? No more, my friends. Now you need a set of Web-oriented skills to ...
- Created on 08 August 2012
- 1521. In the Wheelhouse: Preventative Maintenance for the Fall Blues; Educate Yourself!- KPK
- (General)
- ... 110 educational sessions on a broad range of IBM i-, AIX-, and Linux-related topics, including popular topics such as application development, high availability, PHP and MySQL, RPG IV, systems management ...
- Created on 06 August 2012
- 1522. OCEAN 2012 Technical Conference Wows Attendees with 30 Sessions
- (General)
- ... titled "RPG in V7," "Simplify RPG with Open Access, "Instant Web Services and Stored Procedures," "JavaScript 101 for RPG Programmers," "Fast, Free Apps for Your IBM i," "My Favorite Things About RSE," "Tip ...
- Created on 03 August 2012
- 1523. Simon's Solutions: Which Subsystem Are You In
- (RPG)
- ... variable &RUNPTY to Zoned(2, 0). Examples of using _LBCPYNV in other ILE HLLs, such as RPG and COBOL, are available here. PGM_B.CLLE PGM DCL VAR(&MSG) ...
- Created on 01 August 2012
- 1524. New Grid Template and PDF Support Headline WebSmart ILE 9.2
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- Business Computer Design (BCD Software) has just unveiled a new release of WebSmart ILE. WebSmart is a proven rapid web development tool for IBM i programmers to create RPG web applications. Business ...
- Created on 30 July 2012
- 1525. Developing Mobile Apps for the IBM i, Part I
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... by default and is free. We'll use Valence 3.1 from CNX Corporation to provide RPG support for our mobile application. More info below. The browser—For mobile use, the browser comes with the mobile device. ...
- Created on 30 July 2012
- 1526. The API Corner: Improving Performance by Caching Results
- (APIs)
- ... 3u 0 d 10i 0 inz(0) /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 18 July 2012
- 1527. Creating an Interactive Information Screen in a Browser: Is It Possible?
- (General)
- ... ID Name systemi_currentDate systemi_currentTime clickcount clickoverview What It Does Simulates a call to an RPG program on a System i, retrieves ...
- Created on 11 July 2012
- 1528. Power i Forecast: The Best Workloads for the Cloud
- (IT Infrastructure - Other)
- ... may be the leading ones running on the cloud right now, applications built using RPG, C, Java, Python, and any number of languages are bound to be found up there in the days to come. It seems only ...
- Created on 02 July 2012
- 1529. ProData Releases DBU 10.0 with Remote Data Access
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- DBU 10.0 extends engine enhancements for the traditional green screen and graphical user interface while offering access to remote data in cross-platform databases. ProData has announced the release ...
- Created on 27 June 2012
- 1530. TechTip: TO_CHAR: Formatting Dates in SQL
- (SQL)
- ... i shops, and for good reason: it makes it very easy to do things that are perhaps not so easy in RPG. SQL also provides a standard interface to various tools that aren't specific to the platform, primarily ...
- Created on 22 June 2012
- 1531. DB2 Field Procedures Finally Support Conditional Masking
- (RPG)
- ... two new components of the FieldProc masking support in action by reviewing an example Field Procedure program implemented with RPG. Assume that this example Field Procedure program has been added to the ...
- Created on 20 June 2012
- 1532. SI 2012/06/20 Advertorial
- (MC RPG Developer)
- This ten-minute video introduces you to ASNA Wings. It explains what Wings is and how it is used to modernize the user interface of your RPG applications. ...
- Created on 20 June 2012
- 1533. In the Wheelhouse
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... education, Betamax vs. IBM i, and the striking similarities between RPG and Freddy Krueger. Really. A Brief IBM PureSystems Recap On April 11, 2012, IBM announced the next step in its Smarter Planet ...
- Created on 18 June 2012
- 1534. Technology Focus: Educational Services for IBM i Professionals
- (General)
- As the generation of RPG programmers who built some of the great IBM i application systems that run many SMBs drifts toward retirement, replenishing their ranks poses some urgent problems. Written by ...
- Created on 18 June 2012
- 1535. Cool Things: Retrieving Program Information
- (CL)
- ... file/member identified on the OUTFILE and OUTMBR parameters. The Code The key to this utility is the QCLRPGMI API. This API allows us to retrieve the same type of program information that can be displayed ...
- Created on 15 June 2012
- 1536. TechTip: Column, Line, and Area Charts: Generate Professional-Grade Charts in Your Programs, Part 6
- (General)
- ... Row sections will be written, up to the maximum number of columns defined. This two-dimensional matrix required some special coding on the GenCLAChart procedure (which can be found in the QRPGLESRC/GENCHRT ...
- Created on 08 June 2012
- 1537. Maqetta Application Visualization Tool Could Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
- (Development Tools)
- While still in its infancy, the open-source tool generated interest at the recent IBM Rational Innovate 2012 conference. Written by Chris Smith A few years ago, when IBM was urging RPG developers to ...
- Created on 08 June 2012
- 1538. The ABCs of MI Locks
- (RPG)
- ... or a space location to lock. More examples of using MI lock instructions written in ILE RPG can be found here. Types of MI Locks IBM allows user programs to acquire or release the following types ...
- Created on 06 June 2012
- 1539. Newsletter Overview
- (ROOT)
- ... latest edition. MC RPG Developer While computing languages come and go, RPG is the underlying language for thousands of applications running tens of thousands of businesses on IBM Power Systems across ...
- Created on 06 June 2012
- 1540. The CL Corner: More on the RUNSQL CL Command
- (CL)
- ... or writing a program using a language such as RPG, COBOL, or C, you now have another option; just use a CL program. For those of you who do have the precompiler option of CLF installed, below is ...
- Created on 25 May 2012
- 1541. Free Open-Source Help Desk Solution Running on IBM i Appeals to Users and Management
- (General)
- ... The world of open source has changed the dynamics of IBM i forever, and RPG programmers and system administrators need to be taking advantage of the many PHP solutions available online that can be up ...
- Created on 25 May 2012
- 1542. Profound Logic Releases Profound UI V4
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... platform for IBM i. Profound UI was first introduced in 2010 alongside the announcement of Rational Open Access for RPG by IBM. It was the first handler for Open Access and offered a comprehensive set ...
- Created on 23 May 2012
- 1543. LongRange - Native Mobile App Development Tool for IBM i Developers
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- LANSA has announced the availability of LongRange, a development tool focused entirely on RPG developers–enabling them to build and maintain stylish, modern and business-focused mobile application solutions, ...
- Created on 21 May 2012
- 1544. Presto 4 from BCD Now Includes Optimized Layouts for Mobile Devices
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- ... according to BCD. It instantly transforms all green screens (RPG and COBOL programs, menus, third-party and system screens) to Web pages without requiring any source code changes. The source isn't even ...
- Created on 18 May 2012
- 1545. BCD Presto 4 Expands 5250 Modernization with Mobile Device Optimized Layouts
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... according to BCD. It instantly transforms all green screens (RPG and COBOL programs, menus, third-party and system screens) to Web pages without requiring any source code changes. The source isn't even ...
- Created on 18 May 2012
- 1546. New Tools, Insights, and Solutions Mark COMMON 2012 Vendor Announcements
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... have to offer. The tools are getting much easier to use, are much more powerful, and provide senior-level RPG programmers with opportunities to modernize their systems without learning 15 impossible programming ...
- Created on 18 May 2012
- 1547. Register Now for OCEAN Technical Conference July 20 in Costa Mesa, Calif.
- (Certification / Training)
- ... Application development including RPG open source, tips and tricks to make your SQL sing Developing mobile applications, Web 2.0 and mobile, enabling IBM i apps for iPhone, Android, or Blackberry ...
- Created on 16 May 2012
- 1548. The API Corner: Providing Access to an Application Function
- (APIs)
- ... d 3a /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 16 May 2012
- 1549. COMMON Conference Reveals IBM Roadmap Includes Support for IBM i
- (Trends)
- ... Ready, Set, Plan–Richard Dolewski Step-by-Step Approach to Implementing Object Level Security–Carol Woodbury RPG IV Does XML–Exploiting RPG's XML Processing Capabilities–Jon Paris What You Need to ...
- Created on 11 May 2012
- 1550. TechTip: The Gauge Chart: Generate Professional-Grade Charts in Your Programs in Real Time, Part 5
- (General)
- ... the API's documentation carefully before continuing, because I won't explain all the details. The RPG code of the GenGaugeChart procedure, which you'll find in the QRPGLESRC/GENCHRT source member of ...
- Created on 04 May 2012