RPGPGM.COM - From AS400 to IBM i

July is the month of OCEAN ’s TechCon 2026. TechCon is one of my favorite events of the year, and it is the IBM i event of the year in th...

I was sent a copy of a job log from weeks ago, and had been asked to identify which parts of the job had run the longest. Fortunately, th...

Migrate While Active, MWA , is one of the more exciting features recently introduced for IBM Power hardware and the IBM i operating syst...

Today the first significant update for IBM Bob , the AI-development tool for IBM i has been released. It is called IBM Bob Premium Pack...

I have to admit this was a strange request. Interfacing data to another application is no big deal, but the way it wanted its date and tim...

Yesterday, Sunday June 21 2026, was the 38th anniversary of when the ancestor of the IBM Power and IBM i , AS/400, was first announced. Ex...

I was asked if there was a way to alert if a job exceeded a certain threshold of CPU percentage. The IBM i operating system collects data...

Another year milestone has been reached as I celebrate the 13th birthday of RPGPGM.COM . It has been an incredible personal journey sinc...

A friend asked me if there was a simple way to calculate the "Julian" date when retrieving dates from a DDL table or DDS file wi...

Yesterday, Wednesday May 27, I noticed that a new release of ACS, 1.1.9.13, is now available for download. This is an update to remediat...

There are times I need to calculate the dimensions of objects, and to do that I need to use things like x squared, or the square root of ...

The title is not as descriptive as I would have liked, my original title was too long to appear reasonably at the top of this page. I am g...