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This video is a brief introduction to the new POWER8 servers running IBM i . The presentation is given by IBM i Business Architect Nancy Ut...

Today IBM has announced the new release for IBM i 7.2. In his blog post announcing the new release Steve Will, Chief Architect for IBM i ...

BRMS (Backup, Recovery and Media Services) is used by many IBM i customers to manage the way they save data. Control Groups are created t...

The Greater Salt Lake Midrange User Group has changed their name and have launched a new website. The Salt Lake City, Utah, based group...

Last week I discussed how I had created a program to maximize the number of values I could have in a 3 character field. I did this using t...

My colleagues and I came up with an interesting problem earlier: I have a 3 long field and I want to increment the value in it. We need to...

IBM announced today their latest Technical Refresh for IBM i , Technical Refresh 8 or TR8 . Unlike previous technical refreshes it would ...

While skimming the updated RPG manual I found something that I had not seen before, I can initialize variables with special values. What ...

I have times when a user will request that a report be emailed to them, rather than printed and sent to them via the inter company mail. T...

IBM i 7.1 brought us the RUNSQL command. This allows me to run SQL statements within the CL. Prior to IBM i 7.1 I would have to use t...

I have Ralf Petter to thank for bringing to my attention a RedPaper , published this month, describing the changes to the RGZPFM , Reorga...

With the new RPG all free we have been liberated from using the fixed format specifications. With the new definition operations we can in...