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This month I do not have any speaking engagements. But I will be attending IBM's TechXchange , in Atlanta GA, Sunday October 25 - Tu...

Today IBM i 7.4 reaches End Of Standard Support, EOSS . If you are still using IBM i 7.4 what does that mean? You already know tha...

The germ for this post comes from a series of conversations I had with a colleague. He had been asked to generate a Microsoft Excel spread...

After reading the post about controlling the cursor's movement on a display file , a friend asked: How can I make the cursor stay i...

I know the title sound intriguing, and I thought the subject was worthy of a post. A friend approached me wanting to know how could he ...

Addendum I noticed today, September 20, that the familiar "Update available" pop-up now displays that release 1.1.9.16 is the ne...

In a previous post I explained how I could extract the parts of the qualified job name using the LOCATE_IN_STRING scalar function. With ...

There has been an API to validate CL commands for as long as I can remember, but is not simple to use. Fortunately, as part of the latest...

Every so often IBM delivers something for the IBM i that makes me say "Wow!" Data journal readers are one of these cases. It ha...

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IBM has published a Redbook about modernization: "Modernizing IBM i Applications". The list of authors and contributors is ve...

In an earlier post I wrote about how to convert a character string to hexadecimal, and back to character again . The obvious question fol...