Setting Up A PHP/Web Environment On System i: Where Do I Start?
Hey, Brian:

Our company has been following your sometimes promising, sometimes depressing, articles and responses regarding a natural modern interface to the System i and RPG. If IBM wants to build these interfaces for its other platforms, that's fine too, but I don't really care about those--at least right now. Though I would like the 'Good Brian' to be correct in his opinion of the IBM reorganization (see 'IBM's Reorg: The Good Me or the Bad Me?'), what I have seen from IBM leads me to believe that the 'Bad Brian' got this one right. Since I am not sure to whom at IT Jungle to write my questions on this topic, and since your articles inspired the thought behind these questions, I am writing to you. I hope the 'Good Brian' can give me some guidance. READ MORE >

Don't Let SQL Name Your Baby
Hey, Ted:

We have started using SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) to define our physical files. One feature we really like is that we can use column (field) names longer than 10 characters. One feature we don't like is that SQL creates ugly alternate names of 10 characters that we end up using in our RPG programs. Is there any way we can rename these ugly names? READ MORE >