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GENERATE_SQL_OBJECTS is a SQL procedure I have used which I have found very useful, but have not written about. It allows me to recreate ...

I have already written about how to delay a RPG program by less than a second by using the USLEEP procedure. Now I need to do the same in...

The idea for this post came from a question that was asked on Facebook. Someone wanted to create a subfile that would be projected onto a ...

I have wanted to have a way to get to the same information via SQL that I can by using the Display File Description command, DSPFD . This ...

In the past I have only given examples of using LATERAL in SQL Select statements to get data from Table function . As such I have only me...

As part of the last Technology Refresh four SQL table functions were added that allowed me to extract certain journal entry types from th...

When the new version of ACS was released we were informed that a new version of "Navigator for i" would be forthcoming. Today...

There have been times when I am debugging a multi-thousand line program when I find a line of code that can look something like: 1414....

I use data structure arrays in many of my RPG programs. It has always been impossible to sort the data in the data structure array by mor...

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The new Power 10 chips and server , E1080, were announced last week and it should come as no surprise that IBM is releasing updates to the...

The latest round of Technology Refreshes , IBM i 7.4 TR 5 and 7.3 TR11, brought in three new additions to the RPG language. I thought I w...