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This us another post that came from a question I was asked by a reader of this blog. The question is: I have multiple files in an IFS f...

There has been lots of publicity in the build up to today, and I thought I would add my thoughts on the 35th anniversary of IBM i . That i...

Added to our SQL "toolkit" with the latest round of Technology Refreshes, IBM i 7.5 TR 2 and 7.4 TR8, were two Views and a Tabl...

When it was introduced in IBM i 7.4 I thought the Split built in function , BiF , would be useful way to break apart a string into pieces...

Saturday was the tenth year anniversary of this web site. IMHO that is a remarkable milestone. I have seen other IBM i related web si...

There are times when someone asks me a question I think is interesting enough to become a post here. This was the question that was the ge...

This is another example of something in RPG that almost slipped by me. I now have a way not to have to define a procedure prototype in the...

Forrester Consulting was commissioned by IBM to perform an assessment of the benefits of the IBM i operating system. The result was one ...

I use the SQL scalar function TO_CHAR all of the time to format numbers, inserting thousand separator characters. I can also use it for f...

At least one a month I get a question that is something like this: My SQL results do not look like yours, mine have the word pointer in...

In the IBM i world does "Christmas" come twice a year when the PTFs for the Spring and Fall Technology Refreshes are delivered?...

Having been busy recently performing presentations to various user groups and conferences I noticed an oversight in my work. In my present...