RPGPGM.COM - From AS400 to IBM i

On September 10 IBM announced the end of marketing of IBM i 7.2 on April 30, 2020, and the end of support for this release effective Apri...

When I wrote about how it is possible to check if a subsystem is active or not someone asked me if there is a way to list all the subsys...

One of the new additions to RPG in IBM i 7.4 , and not to the equivalent TR of 7.3 , was the ability to have variable length arrays. H...

With every new release I go through all the "What's new for this release" section of IBM's KnowledgeCenter. For IBM i 7...

Video from IBM introducing their new support site for IBM i clients URL:  ibm.com/support

The Run SQL Statements command, RUNSQLSTM , runs all of the SQL statements that are in a particular source member. I use the command a lot...

Video from IBM about the Power Systems and POWER9 chip.

Last week I wrote a post introducing what SQL Sequences are. Having had a chance to "play" with them some more I wanted to writ...

The title sounds a bit strange, but so is the subject of this post. There is a thing in Db2 for i that I can create called a Sequence. A ...

I was asked was there an easy way to extract the name from the Job Name column in the Db2 for i table function ACTIVE_JOB_INFO . The IB...