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I encountered something last week that I think may be a "bug" in either RPG or in Db2 for i . I was using the REGEXP_REPLACE sc...

This year's Fortra 2026 IBM i Marketplace Survey results has been published. This is the twelfth year of the survey, and I for one, ...

When SEND_MESSAGE SQL procedure was introduced in 2021, as part of IBM i 7.3 TR 10 and 7.4 TR4, it would be used to send messages to the...

I will be involved with one event this month: Tuesday February 17, starting at 8:30 AM ( CT ), I will making a two hour presentation at ...

Tomorrow, January 31, 2026, is the End of Support, EoS , for the small Power9 servers: L922 (9008-22L) S922 (9009-22A) S914 (9009-41A...

Whenever I am asked for an example of how to generate a JSON array or how to consume JSON data I have to point people to different posts, ...

As the computing world has become more "open" we need to process data that comes in different character sets, not just the EBCDI...

On Tuesday, January 14, an announcement was posted on the IBM's ACS Updates page: IBM i Access Client Solutions is vulnerable to a...

After writing the post about Retrieving the print file name from a Query it struck me that I could use the same methodology to answer a q...

The latest Technology Refreshes introduced a new way to give the columns I am inserting with an SQL Insert statement into a Table or file...

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...