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Today being the last day of February it is also the last day of Local User Group 2022 month . I am please to say that last week I found ...

IBM's own Support Roadmap shows a new release coming this year, which they have given the marvelously mysterious name: iNext . The on...

I was working on an interface between two applications. I needed to provide to the receiving application data that would be delimited with...

In Db2 for i a "database" is the equivalent of a partition in IBM i "speak". Many of us work with multiple partition...

I work in a multi-partition environment and frequently use the three part name in a SQL statement to "pull" data from one parti...

We are one week into Local User Group month , I want to thank everyone who contacted me with information about Local User Groups , LUG . ...

An occasional question I get is there a way to determine which job submitted a particular batch job. Fortunately by using a SQL table func...

Every February I have what I like to call Local User Group Month . During this month I maintain the list of user groups I have on this we...

Opposite my office at work is a closet. I finally was given a key to it yesterday. I found that it is full of many, many old things: docum...

Someone pointed out to me last week that the SQL Merge statement can delete rows from the table too. This struck me as bizarre as in my hu...

One of the IBM i operators and I were talking about the contents on one of the little use Power server partitions and the following quest...

As we learned at school there are three types of averages: Mean :  Which is what people when they use the word "average" mean...