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I received an email from Mark Watts to introduce the Metro Midrange Systems Association (MMSA) from Texas. "The Metro Midrange Sys...

There are times for statistical or testing reasons you need a random number. Computers have always struggled to generate truly random numb...

QCMDEXC is a useful API, that has been around since the launch of the AS400 ( IBM i ), that is called to execute a single command. It i...

I am sure all IBM i ( AS400 ) programmers are familiar with the MONMSG command in CL to capture exceptions (errors) and stop an error me...

I am sure many of you know how I feel about user groups. I believe they are a valuable resource to help IBM i folks to come together, lea...

Today was the official announcement date for IBM i Technical Refresh 7, or TR7. I covered a lot of it in yesterday's post IBM i Tec...

IBM has announced the anticipated Technology Refresh 7, commonly called IBM i TR 7. It includes what IBM describes as a " major en...

I received a message after publishing the No More Number Indicators story about an alternate method of conditioning fields in a Display f...

The RPG operation code SELECT as been with us for many years. It is also found in many other languages, including CL (see the post SELECT...

I received an email asking me the following question: What about date validation? Dates on a screen are usually displayed as MMDDYY. I ...

This post is a continuation of a previous posting More SQL and dates part I , and is based on an email I received from Scott Damery. ...

After my post on calculating the last day of the month using SQL, Calculating end of month part II , I received an email from Scott Damery...