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I have just learned that there will be a leap second before January 1, 2017. A leap second is an extra second added to a day to keep UTC (...

Someone said to me that the reason that they will not use totally free RPG is they cannot call programs using it. In the earlier flavors...

The idea for this post came from a meeting of the programming managers at work. My programming nemesis, the " I can do everything you...

Yesterday an updated version of the Tools and Solutions for Modernizing Your IBM i Applications Redpaper was released. This Redpaper, whi...

I am sure I am not the only person who has received a message, email, or telephone call informing me that there was an error message that ...

Yesterday I came across a new IBM i user group with the wonderful name of MAGIC . I reached out to them for more information and received...

As part of the IBM i 7.3 TR1 and 7.2 TR5 enhancements a new RPG operation code, ON-EXIT , was added. The purpose of this operation code i...

When I posted pictures of the IBM print charts I had found, Kevin Adler sent me pictures of some of the RPG history he has, RPG coding s...

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...