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This post is based upon something I made for myself, and after discussing it with some friends they said it would be worthy of becoming a ...

A new draft of the IBM Redbook "Who Knew You Could Do That with RPG IV? Modern RPG for the Modern Programmer", completed October...

When I wrote about creating a validation trigger in SQL several people asked me to give an example using RPG. Never being one to turn dow...

I could not resist posting pictures of a find I made in a box at home, a pad of IBM 132/10/8 print charts. The numbers denote that the cha...

I do get many requests asking for whole example programs, especially ones with a subfile, rather than just bits and pieces of code that I ...

I was assisting a colleague creating a SQL View when I encountered something I had not thought of before. He wanted to create a view with ...

Triggers are a versatile database tool. A few weeks ago I wrote about using triggers to write data to an output file. I can also use trig...

Null is a concept that RPG programmers are going to have to learn. Generations of RPG programmers have used a blank or zero in a variable ...

In my previous post, Creating User Defined Functions to make my SQL statements easier , I gave example of how to create SQL User Defined F...

The old ERP application I have to work with holds the "dates" in its files as seven long packed numeric fields, called *CYMD fo...

While it was not part of the fanfare for the release of IBM i 7.3, there were some enhancements made to RPG. Two of the changes were made...

(Updated Tuesday October 11 at 6:00 AM) Technical Updates for IBM i 7.3, TR1, and 7.2, TR5, have just been announced on IBM’s developer...