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I received a message asking me if there was an easy way in RPG to have a screen constantly update without the user needing to press a key....

Charlie Despres posed a good question in a comment to my original post Speeding up CPYF , "Does this still work if I add conditions ...

Every developer type person who has worked on the IBM i , or its predecessors, has had to use the Copy File command, CPYF , to copy data f...

Last month the Swedish publication Data3 published an interesting article about the future of our beloved plaform. Two students working a...

All of the examples I can find of using procedures on the IBM i are mainly in RPG, with a few in C. This made me want to demonstrate that...

I have been surprised, and a bit disappointed, to find many examples of RPG code in various social media groups still written in columns. ...

I recently received a communication asking me if there was an easier way to display messages on a display file than using a message subfil...

In the past week one of my established jobs has started an "object locked" error. After some quick analysis I discovered that th...

Data structures have always been a useful part of RPG, especially when returning information from a procedure. In CL I can create "De...

Operation code extenders on a Read operation in RPG are those letters that are follow the operation code in parentheses. I am sure the two...

Almost by accident I have started discussions on how to determine the largest objects on your IBM i server. I have given examples of how:...

In last week's post, here , I gave an example of how I determine the 250 biggest objects on my IBM i server. I created the informatio...