XML-INTO Meets Open Access With RPG’s New DATA-INTO
February 1, 2018
An introduction to the latest addition to the RPG language: DATA-INTO. Perhaps the best way to think of DATA-INTO is as a combination of Open Access and XML-INTO
ArticlesSubsystem Management With Navigator for i, Part 2
January 30, 2018
Navigator has been updated to support the ability to create and change class objects, create and change job queues, and more.
ArticlesTeaching RPG to IBM i Developers
January 11, 2018
Steve Will examines the transformation of RPG into a modern programming language accessible to non-RPG developers within the IBM i community.
ArticlesYour Partner in the Cloud
January 2, 2018
McKinsey & Company predicts that enterprises building multiclouds with infrastructure on-premises are expected to double provisioned workloads by 2018 (bit.ly/2iz4a5k). Private clouds, when designed with the right technology, can deliver the simplicity associated with public cloud solutions, while retaining the security, availability and freedom traditionally associated with infrastructure fully under your control. IBM Power Systems* […]
ArticlesPosting Tweets from IBM i
January 1, 2018
More and more, social media provides an avenue to share information. It’s very easy to read your Twitter feed or post a Tweet using a smartphone, PC, etc., but what if you want to post Tweets automatically or on a schedule? Maybe you have a new product to promote or perhaps you want to advertise […]
What’s New in RDi With V9.6
January 1, 2018
IBM i developers got an early Christmas gift in 2017—a new version of RDi to play with! Here's an overview of some of the changes that we've found so far.
ArticlesTrevor Perry on Slide Decks and IT Strategy
January 1, 2018
Paul Tuohy: Hi everybody and welcome to the first iTalk with Tuohy of 2018. To kick off the year, I think no better person to maybe look back at 2017 with and to kick off the new year is my friend, my colleague, my fellow IBM Champion and general AS/400 evangelist, Trevor Perry. [Laughs] I […]
ArticlesActive Memory Pools with Navigator for i
December 21, 2017
On the “green screen” you can see what pool a job is running in with Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB); press F11 one time and you’ll find a column with the pool number. That’s nice, but you need to know the description of the pool that number is associated with. Using Work with System Status […]
ArticlesIBM i Open Source and the Talent That Follows
December 6, 2017
James Hodgkinson shares his company's experience with open-source technology.
Articlesi Can use IBM DVD Images with my USB 3.0 Adapter
November 28, 2017
With IBM i 7.2 TR5 and 7.3 TR1, IBM introduced “Optical Containers.” This allowed users to see the DVD image as a separate file system.