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Last month I noticed a banner that appeared on the top of all the developerWorks pages notifying us that it was to be closed on Decembe...

Last week I started writing about the new table functions introduced in IBM i 7.4 TR 1 and 7.3 TR 7, describing the first of the four tab...

A new IBM i on Power Performance FAQ was released yesterday, November 21 2019. While you may not think there will be anything in it fo...

Thanks to the folks at RZKH who downloaded and applied the PTFs for IBM i 7.4 TR 1 on the first day they became available, what great se...

Today is the day the new Technology Refresh PTFs become available for download for the two most current releases of IBM i 7.4 TR 1 and 7....

When I wrote about securing DDM files I bemoaned the lack of a WRKSVRAUTE command. While ago I stumbled across a Db2 for i View that wi...

Here is another example of using SQL can make your life easier, coping with a change of the key in file without having to change the progr...

The post I wrote last month about the developerWorks closing at the end of this year. This caused a flurry of messages asking me if this...

At work we monitor the percentage of ASP used to make sure we do not cross the threshold into "critical storage". Recently the a...

I first wrote about using Temporal tables when they were introduced as part of IBM i 7.3, back in 2016. I thought they would become wide...

I noticed at the top of all the IBM developerWorks pages I visit there is the following message: The developerWorks Connections platfo...

The following question was posed on Twitter last week: For the life of me I can't figure how to get an IBM i machine type programm...