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In my previous post I stated that IBM had removed the RPG400 user's guide and reference from the KnowledgeCenter. Having performed ...

As I have said in previous posts if you are programming only in RPG400, or RPG3, and not learning and using the latest version of RPG you ...

In a previous post I had written about using regular expressions to search for data within a string , but I did not mention the easier to...

Update This is a better way to sort a data structure array using an update to the SORTA operation code .     Any of you who hav...

The idea for this post came from a question I was asked about ways to stop a programmer from deleting records from a file using the STRSQL...

We have all had those requests from our superiors: "Where is insert-name-here file used?" There are tools from third parties ...

I have been receiving a lot of messages asking for more examples using the CL programming language. For those of you who have been asking ...

In the past I have written about zipping files in the IFS using Java jar and APIs , this week a colleague showed me a simpler way to do it...

I was surprised that I was asked this question, but as I have been asked six times in the last week it must be something that is important...

Included in the technical refreshes for IBM i 7.3 TR 5 and 7.2 TR 9 was a new Db2 for i built in function to convert character strings ...

I have written about getting the library list from a job description using the QWDRJOBD API . An API is fine for doing things for one job...

Another of the enhancements with the latest round of Technical Refreshes , TR 5 for IBM i 7.3 and TR 9 for 7.2, is to the Db2 for i Extr...