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I received a question asking me how to create a table with a long name that also had a good short name, and the long column names within t...

When I am mapping an IFS folder to a Windows network drive I know that there are times where I will perform a typo on my password and the ...

In my last post I wrote about making it easier to copy IBM i files to an IFS folder . I have my personal IFS folder set up as a Microsoft...

Often I find it easier to analyze the contents of a file using Microsoft's Excel than using the IBM i based tools. I take the file, o...

I have written about subfiles , and even a screen with two subfiles on it . When I was asked about a screen with two subfiles, side-by-si...

A new year has started, and I am always excited to look back on the old year and forward to what the new year will bring. The past few...

In my previous post I stated that IBM had removed the RPG400 user's guide and reference from the KnowledgeCenter. Having performed ...

As I have said in previous posts if you are programming only in RPG400, or RPG3, and not learning and using the latest version of RPG you ...

In a previous post I had written about using regular expressions to search for data within a string , but I did not mention the easier to...

Any of you who have followed this blog for any amount of time are aware that I am proponent of using multiple row fetches in SQL to load d...