RPGPGM.COM - From AS400 to IBM i

I will be presenting at two in-person conferences this month, and look forward to seeing you at one or both of them. The first is in L...

I have been burned before by file overrides, which point input, output, update, etc. both to an expected file. Anything new that comes al...

Yesterday an updated version of the IBM i technical resource roadmap was published. This web page contains a list of useful links for all...

Just a few weeks ago someone asked me if there was a way, using SQL, he could view problems on his system. What we mean by "problems...

At my first conference of the year, WMCPA iCon, I handed out 51 ribbons to the newest members of the RPGPGM.COM-unity . You can see p...

I do check the Index Advisor on a regular basis to see what is recommended. I have found that this perspective can become overwhelmed by ...

While I love the amount of information that the IBM i will retain for us, there are times where it can become overwhelming, or redundant....

In every IBM i recent release and Technology Refresh a few new Audit Journal Table extract functions are added. I wanted to see which one...

I have, to date, been disappointed that I could not programmatically retrieve a description for the 420 Audit journal entry types. Referri...

The Fall 2025 Technical Refreshes brought some significant improvements to the GENERATE_SPREADSHEET SQL scalar function . These being: ...

On Friday February 20 IBM's AI Bob was formally announced with a planned availability date of March 24. You can read the announcemen...

On January 30, IBM Support published a page called "IBM i V7R5 versus V7R6 comparison" (shame on IBM Support for not using the p...