- 1801. Exporting by Interfaces: Decoupling Service Programs and Service Consumer Applications
- (RPG)
- ... symbol lists in the binder language source for your service program, each starting with a STRPGMEXP command and ending with an ENDPGMEXP command. Each export symbol list describes symbols exported by a ...
- Created on 04 May 2010
- 1802. COMMON, IBM's Academic Initiative, and YiPs All Working to Perpetuate the i Platfor
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... RPG Developer course sponsored by the IBM Academic Initiative. He is now an intern working on a project with Tembo Technology Lab and Hyphen. Ogbechie was one of the early students in the AI program for ...
- Created on 02 May 2010
- 1803. Zend Server 5.0 Streamlines PHP Web Development and Management for IBM i and Power
- (Programming Languages)
- ... a leading platform for rapid development of Web front-ends to RPG and COBOL applications,” said Ian Jarman, manager, Power Systems software at IBM. “The commitment of IBM and Zend to technology cooperation ...
- Created on 27 April 2010
- 1804. DB2 for i 7.1: More Than Meets the Eye
- (DB2)
- ... program can be written to include logic to encrypt the data for a write operation and automatically decrypt for read operations. This is exciting news to those IBM i customers with legacy RPG and COBOL ...
- Created on 25 April 2010
- 1805. The API Corner: Questions Should Have Answers!
- (APIs)
- ... /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qmhrcvpm /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 20 April 2010
- 1806. V7R1 CL: Something for Everyone
- (CL)
- ... commands, these commands (along with the equivalent commands for RPG, COBOL, C, and C++) also added the Debug encryption key (DBGENCKEY) keyword. This support allows an ILE module or program to be created ...
- Created on 14 April 2010
- 1807. The First Major Release of IBM i since 2008, IBM i 7.1 Touches Every Aspect of the OS
- (Analysis of News Events)
- Among numerous upgrades, one of the most noteworthy enhancements is full database support of XML, while changes to RPG will permit sending data to a variety of pervasive devices. Written by Chris Smith ...
- Created on 13 April 2010
- 1808. Now Introducing XML in SQL on DB2 for IBM i!
- (SQL)
- ... to a 2 GB maximum length. The XML data type can be specified as a column type and also as a data type for host variables in embedded SQL RPG and C programs, for example, and can be specified in Java ...
- Created on 13 April 2010
- 1809. TMW Systems Makes Big Investment in Software in 2009
- (Other Industry Solutions)
- ... including TL2000, Innovative IES and TMT Fleet Maintenance for IBM i. The DAWG for IBM i, an RPG native version of TMW’s popular exception alerting program, was released in 2009 for TL2000 and TMT products ...
- Created on 29 March 2010
- 1810. TechTip: From a PC Text File to a System i Physical File in One or Two Easy Steps
- (RPG)
- ... data into the database. Obviously, there will be some sort of field validation/business rules checks. For that, there will be an RPG program. We can use the same program to transfer the data, validate ...
- Created on 18 March 2010
- 1811. Don't Think About Whom You Have Been. Who Are You Now
- (General)
- OCEAN members get briefing on AJAX technologies by author Jeff Olen; board sets date for this summer's technical conference. Written by Chris Smith The room was filled with RPG programmers, and the question ...
- Created on 18 March 2010
- 1812. The API Corner: Sending Non-Error-Related Messages from an Application Program
- (APIs)
- ... d CCSID 10i 0 const options(*nopass) /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 16 March 2010
- 1813. Ease of Use Takes on New Meaning with Visual LANSA V12
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... can reuse the business rules regardless of platform or development language can go a long way to eliminate duplication of common business logic across different programs, be they written in RPG, PHP, C#, ...
- Created on 15 March 2010
- 1814. Publishers, Authors, and User Groups Help COMMON Africa Acquire Textbooks
- (Certification / Training)
- Students at Vaal University of Technology in South Africa will now have RPG and PHP textbooks thanks to a combined effort of interested parties in the U.S. In a heartfelt display of generosity, the ...
- Created on 12 March 2010
- 1815. TechTip: Automate FTP in "Real Life": Integrate with Lotus Domino Mail Server via LotusScrip
- (Scripting)
- ... how to transfer the data from a text file—fixed columns, comma-separated values (CSV), or other—to a physical file within an RPGLE program. RMTCMD and REXEC The RMTCMD command is used to send a comman ...
- Created on 04 March 2010
- 1816. RDi Becomes Rational Developer for Power Systems Software
- (Analysis of News Events)
- Rational Team Concert for Power now caters to RPG developers, according to IBM. Written by Chris Smith IBM announced upgrades to both RDi and Rational Team Concert last month, giving developers on the ...
- Created on 04 March 2010
- 1817. We Finally Have a Green-Screen Development Tool!
- (RPG)
- ... developer, so jump in! Rational Developer for IBM Power Systems And that's not even the whole name. The full name is Rational Developer for IBM Power Systems: RPG and COBOL Development Tools for the ...
- Created on 02 March 2010
- 1818. My IBM i Top 10 Wish List
- (IBM i (OS/400, i5/OS))
- What would you like to see in RPG and on the IBM i? Written by Tom Snyder I don't know about you, but I am very curious to see the new capabilities that will be available with the latest enhancements ...
- Created on 02 March 2010
- 1819. EDiT from SiD Offers 12 Work/Study Grants to Unemployed Developers
- (Certification / Training)
- Applications are due March 11 for complementary training spots at the next RPG & DB2 Summit. System i Developer, the consortium of four educators teaching IBM i development technologies, today announced ...
- Created on 02 March 2010
- 1820. CNX Unveils Latest Release of Valence for Web 2.0 Development on the System i
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... served through standard ILE RPG. "This is our most sweeping Valence announcement yet," said Richard Milone, CNX chief technical officer. "Most of the enhancements for this release came directly as a result ...
- Created on 26 February 2010
- 1821. Web Development: Are You Using the Best Tools for Your Environment?
- (Web Languages)
- ... want to focus on tools that have an IBM i-centric focus to make it easy to work with DB2 databases, re-use existing RPG code, interface with IBM i system commands and APIs, etc. The other choice, which ...
- Created on 21 February 2010
- 1822. TechTip: Learn How to Explode and Implode with PHP
- (Web Languages)
- ... ); echo $string . ""; Or if you fill the array the RPG way, it could look like this: $ary[0] = "Elvis"; $ary[1] = "Costello"; $ary[2] = "My Aim Is True"; $ary[3] = "1977"; $string = ...
- Created on 18 February 2010
- 1823. The API Corner: More on Sending Messages from an Application Program
- (APIs)
- ... /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusrobjd /copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec ...
- Created on 16 February 2010
- 1824. Partner TechTip: In Tough Economic Times, How Can You Get Training?
- (General)
- ... i Developer are professional educators in the business of training IBM i developers via both onsite classes and conferences such as the upcoming RPG & DB2 Summit. We also have years of experience working ...
- Created on 16 February 2010
- 1825. TechTip: Automate Data Transfers Using FTP
- (RPG)
- i talk to other servers. No, it's not a typo. This TechTip series will get your System i talking to other servers. Written by Rafael Victoria-Pereira Back in the old days, when our server was called ...
- Created on 11 February 2010
- 1826. IBM Announces New POWER7 Servers
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... allowing for RPG and COBOL development for i, and C/C++ and COBOL development for AIX. The new tool supports RPG, i COBOL, i C/C++, Java, and EGL and is integrated with Zend Studio for PHP development. ...
- Created on 11 February 2010
- 1827. ERP for Free?
- (Enterprise Resource Planning / Financial)
- ... opinion of someone who's running xTuple to get a product quality endorsement. Some other notable open-source ERP products are WebERP, BlueERP, and Compiere. Open-Source ERP for IBM i with RPG? I searche ...
- Created on 07 February 2010
- 1828. MoveA: One Last Time
- (RPG)
- MoveA? Again? Still? Really? Written by Jim Martin Author's note: The subject of the RPG opcode MoveA (as it pertains to free-format RPG) keeps coming up in articles, blogs, and forums throughout our ...
- Created on 02 February 2010
- 1829. Technology Focus: SOA for IBM i: More Than Just Ordering off the Menu
- (Development Tools)
- ... products or services, be sure to check the MC Press Online Buyer's Guide. ASNA Visual RPG for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Blue Phoenix ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) is an RPG implementation that lets ...
- Created on 31 January 2010
- 1830. Considering the World Beyond WebSphere
- (Web Languages)
- Evaluate your IBM i GUI options. Compare RPG, PHP, .NET, and Java. Written by Tom Snyder If you are a developer on the IBM i, you probably realize that one of the biggest demands from users is a better ...
- Created on 24 January 2010
- 1831. GeneXus Releases Update 1 to GeneXus Evolution 1
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... the release of the first update (Update 1) to GeneXus Evolution 1 (EV1). GeneXus EV1 has RPG, COBOL, .Net (C#), Java, Ruby, and VFP generators. It supports IBM’s leading databases such as DB2 (all versions ...
- Created on 22 January 2010
- 1832. Use SQL to Export and Delimit Files on the IBM i
- (SQL)
- ... yesterday! Sure, you could write an RPG program to do it, or you could do it in SQL using a single statement! create table mylib/mc_phone4 as (select cast('"' as char(1) ccsid 37) delimit1, a.maacct, ...
- Created on 19 January 2010
- 1833. The API Corner: Inform Users of Problems by Sending Error Messages from Application Programs
- (APIs)
- ... which represents the name of the program encountering the failure. This substitution variable is defined as a 10-byte character variable. In our sample program, we will access the program name using RPG' ...
- Created on 19 January 2010
- 1834. Technology Focus: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
- (Enterprise Resource Planning / Financial)
- ... manual credit reviews, third-party service information retrieval, and credit bureau data retrieval and analysis. NovaExpress 400 CFXWorks, Inc. NovaExpress 400 is an RPG-sourced payment card solution ...
- Created on 17 January 2010
- 1835. TechTip: Meet Your New PHP Friends, Mrs. date and Mr. strtotime
- (Web Languages)
- It's not RPG, but still, PHP has some strong date functions. Written by Jan Jorgensen PHP gets more and more hot in the IBM i community, so I'm planning a series of TechTips about PHP functions that you ...
- Created on 14 January 2010
- 1836. In Search of the Perfect UI
- (Web Languages)
- Experts wrestle over the best way for RPG programmers to build Web apps as one uncovers a nifty new JavaScript tool. Written by Chris Smith The enthusiasm that PHP has elicited in the IBM i community ...
- Created on 14 January 2010
- 1837. Scripting Languages on i: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
- (Scripting)
- ... by the Web server.) Some languages, such as RPG and COBOL, require a little more help; they usually have a special helper API that provides access to the STDOUT stream. Here's an example of the RPG ...
- Created on 12 January 2010
- 1838. Linoma Software Releases V3.0 of GoAnywhere Director
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... from a variety of third-party applications, schedulers and languages including CL, RPG, Java, C, .NET and PHP. GoAnywhere Director can be installed to a variety of platforms, including IBM System i, IBM ...
- Created on 08 January 2010
- 1839. Profound Logic Announces Public Release of Atrium
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... has been optimized to integrate with all of the tools provided in Profound Logic’s Modernization Suite, including RPGsp, the rapid Web development tool for RPG programmers, and Genie, the on-the-fly green-screen ...
- Created on 07 January 2010
- 1840. Delimit Data on the IBM i the Easy Way
- (RPG)
- Need to delimit and transfer data when System i Access is not an option? Written by Tom Snyder Delimiting data is a common way of separating fields within text files. If you're using the Data Transfer ...
- Created on 05 January 2010
- 1841. Linoma Backs iManifest, Continues Investments in IBM i Products
- (Channel News)
- ... Linoma Software actively develops, updates, and supports the following solutions for the IBM i platform: RPG Toolbox–The powerful developer toolset that modernizes legacy RPG code to /Free form, including ...
- Created on 04 January 2010
- 1842. IBM Continues to Invest in Power Systems and IBM i
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... today, RPG programs rely on the 5250 or green-screen interface, even if the screens are converted to a Web browser format. In the future, RPG programs will not be tied to the 5250, thereby enabling RPG ...
- Created on 20 December 2009
- 1843. Speakers Waiting in Line for Sessions at Orlando COMMON, Says Madden
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... partly due to an expected series of new announcements from IBM detailing enhancements to RPG and IBM i, partly because the Orlando location has proven to be popular in the past, and because the behind-the-scenes ...
- Created on 06 December 2009
- 1844. No Shortage of Speakers for Orlando COMMON
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... to RPG and IBM i, partly because the Orlando location has proven to be popular in the past, and partly because the behind-the-scenes team of volunteers helping to put the conference together hasn't been ...
- Created on 06 December 2009
- 1845. Databorough Announces X-Analysis Lite
- (Development Tools / Utilities)
- ... and Interactive Graphical Diagramming that currently provide critical functionality to thousands of RPG and COBOL developers worldwide using X-Analysis 8 on IBM i. X-Analysis Lite also comes with bi-directional ...
- Created on 04 December 2009
- 1846. The CL Corner: What's New with Files
- (CL)
- ... the equivalent of RPG /COPY directives, COBOL COPY directives, and C #include directives when developing CL applications! There are some limitations on what can be included. For instance, the source ...
- Created on 03 December 2009
- 1847. The API Corner: What to Do with Messages in the Application Program
- (APIs)
- ... start out my programs with the following: d/copy qsysinc/qrpglesrc,qusec … dErrCde ds ...
- Created on 17 November 2009
- 1848. OCEAN Features iManifest and Web Services Presentations
- (Channel News)
- ... logic, you need to attend this meeting. Donald Leong will be presenting a simple way to extract data from an RPG screen with very minimal alteration to existing programs. Find out how to overcome the hurdle ...
- Created on 16 November 2009
- 1849. iManifest Gets Boost from BCD
- (Analysis of News Events)
- ... something about this.' " While Figura expects young people to come onto the IBM i platform, he doesn't see large numbers of them using RPG. More likely it will be PHP and MySQL, he predicts. He point ...
- Created on 15 November 2009
- 1850. What Is the Role of Open Source in a Down Economy?
- (General)
- ... or pursue network marketing schemes that inevitably lead to failure and disappointment. Currently, there are hundreds of people with RPG skills who are looking for work and not readily finding it, ...
- Created on 12 November 2009