Words of wisdom from the IBM i community
The folks at Mochasoft have come out with a new 5250 client for mobile devices … this one for the iPhone. There are two versions in the Apple iTunes Store … a free ‘Lite’ version and the full version for $29.99. For what it does, the $29.99 cost is not unreasonable … although I haven’t…
Ha! I’ll bet you thought this blog was dead. Well, in the words of Miracle Max, only mostly dead. I’m in the process of reading a new programming book (well, not new to some … new to me). I’ll probably post a review in a week or so (yeah, right). Anyways, it got me to…
This morning, on my way back from COMMON, I received email from a friend informing me that Al Barsa had passed away last night. This news hit me very hard … Al has been a pillar of the AS/400 (yes, I use that name deliberately) community for many years and a friend. His passion and…
Well, I haven’t been blogging from COMMON yet … but I just got out of the IBM Town Hall meeting a few minutes ago. It was announced that the “System i” and “System p” were merging into a single, unified, platform called “Power”. The OS, originally named OS/400, then I5/OS, is now going to be…
Today I was honored by the COMMON organization with it’s highest award … the Distinguished Service Award. Although I did have a slight inkling that something was in the works … due to a flub by Anne Lucas in the mailing list … I really wasn’t prepared for it. I was presented with the award…
For our new billing system (AR), we wanted to store account numbers for so that our customers could auto-pay their bills. After some searching and seeing how complicated the APIs are to use, I found these SQL functions: ENCRYPT_RC2(data, password) and DECRYPT_CHAR(data, password) . These looked promising and being that this is an internal-only system,…
For those of you involved in IBM i oriented Local User Groups (LUGs), midrange.com offers some free services that you might like to take advantage of … Mailing lists You can request two types of mailing lists … A simple announcement list to broadcast meeting information & other important bits to your membership. This type…
Similar to the old saying “Physician, heal thyself” … I certianly should live by those words. Today I was chasing down a problem on one of our systems at work … a program that works fine on V5R2 wasn’t working on V5R3. I was 99% sure the problem was in an i5/os server program ……
I was sitting here at my desk after replacing the window motor in my van pondering this thought: “Man, I think JSF is trying to emulate the RPG cycle with it’s ‘Life Cycle’ (click here), the exact thing that so many RPGers are trying to get away from.” Or maybe it is better stated to…
Well, it appears that IBM is getting ready to give us a taste of what V6R1 is going to include. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/v6r1preview.html Not a lot of details … I think the redpaper mistake earlier reported is probably more telling than the ‘Preview’ information. [tags]ibm, system i, iseries, i5/os[/tags]