Jon Paris
Contributor
Jon Paris is a TechChannel technical editor. His IBM midrange career started when he fell in love with the System/38 while working as a consultant. This ultimately led him to joining IBM. In 1987, Jon was hired by the IBM Toronto Laboratory to work on the S/36 and S/38 COBOL compilers. Subsequently, he became involved with the AS/400 and in particular COBOL/400. In early 1989, Jon was transferred to the Languages Architecture and Planning Group, with particular responsibility for the COBOL and RPG languages. He was heavily involved in producing educational and other support materials and services related to other AS/400 programming languages and development tools. Jon left IBM in 1998. He’s the co-owner of Partner400 (www.partner400.com) and part of System i Developer (www.systemideveloper.com). Jon was named an IBM Power Systems Champion (www.ibm.com/developerworks/champion) in October 2011.
Creating Web Services With Integrated Web Services
November 1, 2024
Back in 2012 we published the article “Need a REST?” where we described the basics of developing a simple REST** Web service in RPG. At the time we noted that although IBM’s Integrated Web Services (IWS) could have been used for this task, it only generated SOAP Web services and that this was overkill for […]
ArticlesThe Latest in RPG Built-in Functions
June 3, 2021
Jon Paris on the three new RPG Built-in Functions from the IBM i 7.4 TR4 announcement—%Upper, %Lower and %Split
ArticlesDiving Deeper Into Web Services with DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN
June 1, 2020
Technical editors Jon Paris and Susan Gantner continue their series on DATA-INTO
ArticlesDATA-INTO Plus DATA-GEN for Web Services
April 6, 2020
Combining these two RPG operations with the YAJL library simplifies using web services from RPG
ArticlesTackling Unique Audit Requirements with RPG
December 16, 2019
IBM i experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner share tips to tackle Data Structures and audit requirements
ArticlesRPG’s New Procedure Overloading and DATA-GEN Capabilities
October 14, 2019
RPG experts Jon Paris and Susan Gantner explain new capabilities available with the Fall 2019 IBM i TR
ArticlesVarying-Dimension Arrays for RPG
June 1, 2019
The new IBM i 7.4 announcement brought with it varying-dimension arrays, a new data definition keyword and more
ArticlesUse DATA-INTO for Processing Data With RPG
April 1, 2019
XML-INTO helped me with processing XML data, but now I’m being asked to process JSON, CSVs and other types of data. Can RPG help me to do this?
ArticlesThe Power of Prototypes for RPG
April 1, 2018
Prototypes are a topic that most RPGers know a little about because they are required for coding program and procedure calls in free format RPG
ArticlesA Closer Look at RPG’s DATA-INTO
March 1, 2018
An introduction to a more generic version of our CSV parser, along with trace support that IBM has built in to facilitate the development of parsers