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Notes from the COMMON Anaheim Conference

I felt and heard from a lot of attendees that the conference seemed more muted (one participant's term) than in years past. ...

Product Lines

BCD Upgrades Modernization, Business Intelligence, and Web Dev Tools

Business Computer Design, Int’l Inc, (BCD) offers a slew of updates to three of its products. First, BCD announces a new release of Presto, its IBM i green screen web enablement and modernization tool. Version 4 includes web page layouts optimized ...

Scott's iLand

COMMON 2012

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iDigress

A soapbox for IBM i developers

Solving the Problem with List Parameters and Variables in CL

Since the early days of the CPF operating system on the System/38, I've been bedeviled by specifying variables for list parameters in CL programs. For every other parameter on the system, if we need to specify a variable we're good to go, but we’ve ...

Maxed Out

Pair of Power System Reviews Trickle In

Have you reviewed your IBM Power System yet? I know, I know, it seems a bit weird because it’s not like an IBM Power System is a consumer product you find on some retail outlet site. Still, might enterprise-oriented reviews become useful down the ...

Dr. I Doctor

Dr. I Doctor's Information Juggernaut

Sharing Internet for Redundancy

Dear Doctor, A neighboring company with a high-speed Internet connection similar to ours, but from a different provider, has proposed that we pool our resources so that one company's connection can support the other company should it lose Internet ...

iStudio

Video Reports from Spring COMMON 2007

Videos from COMMON, Tenth Installment: Steve Finnes

Steve Finnes, IBM Rochester's business continuity product offering manager, talks about Secure Perspective, IBM's new licensed program product that will set security configurations to an organization's policies and create compliance reports. Get ...

Exploring Eclipse RCP

Java data queues 321 -- User interface to model input dtaq for RCP DtaQ Demo

The next step toward completing RCP DtaQ Demo is to provide the User Interface (UI) to the demonstration model, that is a GUI to enter the values for the input data queue. To do this means adding support for the model input data queue and an ...

3X to i5 Flashback

Stupid RPG tricks and sourdough programming starter

Remember learning to program before the Internet? How did we do it? How did we learning anything? Back in the good ol' days, programming tricks and techniques were passed around from one programmer to another like sourdough starter was passed from ...

From Here to Modernity

Database Modernization

On a post to this blog the question was raised: "It appears that any modernization effort needs to start with a fully normalized database. Is this correct?" Another person noted that some shops have experienced substantial performance improvements ...

iSpeak

I Like System i Like Crazy

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." -- Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet. Yes, a few weeks ago, IBM announced that they were changing the name of our beloved system from iSeries to System i. ...

WDSc Survivor

Just an update

Sorry is has been so long since I've blogged anything. The Spring is my busiest travel time. I'm always away on some KOA trip right when COMMON is taking place. I heard there was a nice comment about our WDSc work at KOA made to the IBMers in a ...


 

around the forums

Running automated tests on a display file program
Forum Name: RPG
21 May 2012 07:57 PM | Replies: 1
Using remote commands with FTP
Forum Name: Communications/Networking
21 May 2012 03:57 PM | Replies: 3
How do I start reading from the first record?
Forum Name: CL
21 May 2012 02:51 PM | Replies: 5
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