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I will be involved with one event this month: Tuesday January 13, starting at 6:30 PM ( CT ), I will be presenting at this month's C...

New Years is one of my favorite times of year, as we are filled with the excitement for what 2026 will bring us all. Before we put our...

A friend had been tasked to determine which programs used a particular CL command. When telling me about this she mentioned a CL command I...

ZLIB was introduced as an improved save compression algorithm as part of IBM i 7.4. With IBM Power10 processors the algorithm uses the on...

Have you ever had the need to determine if a number is even or odd? I have had to in various scenarios. This has been made a lot easier wi...

One thing that has always annoyed me within RPG compiler listings is how it handles long variables names. In the "Additional diagnost...

Included within the new Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.6 TR 1 and IBM i 7.5 TR7 , comes three new date formats to help us with the 2040 d...

This is the final part of the following trilogy: Change the file's size and reuse deleted records Remove the deleted records from t...

This is the second part of the trilogy I started last week: Change the file's size and reuse deleted records Remove the deleted re...

Recently I have been surprised there have been several messages during the day-end process alerting that various files are full. The on-ca...

I do use global variables , maybe the word "a lot" is an exaggeration but the phrase "many times" springs to mind. The...

I had found that the Work Query command, WRKQRY , was not working on the IBM i 7.6 partition I have been using. I thought that, perhaps, ...