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Having brought up journal inheritance in my previous post I thought it would be wise to follow that up with this post. This post describes...

While this post is not going to be one of my longer ones, it is going to demonstrate another useful addition to Db2 for i within the late...

Last week I wrote about a new way in debug of changing the value returned from a procedure in a RPG program . Having had some time to look...

Many of us handle data coming from non IBM i sources, whether it be files sent from other types of systems or from web applications. Whil...

Sometimes it can be hard in testing to change values returned from procedures. I don't want to change the code in the procedure. But h...

One of biggest complaints I have always had about using data queues is that there is no easy way to see what is inside them, without remov...

I have now had a little bit of time to play with the new version of ACS , 1.1.8.6, and I have found a couple of things I thought were wort...

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This is one of my favorites in the latest round of Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.4 TR 3 and 7.3 TR 9. The RELATED_OBJECTS table function...

I am sure I am not the only person when I get a number returned in my SQL results I have to look at it carefully to determine is that numb...

This post continues yesterday's theme of doing things to files in the IFS with SQL. Then it was how to read an IFS file , today will ...

One the latest additions to Db2 for i in the latest Technology Refreshes , IBM i 7.4 TR 3 and 7.3 TR 9, was a Table function offering us...