FROG: PC-based SQL for DB2 for i
by Ted Holt

It is my pleasure to feature a software tool that has proven very valuable to me. It's called FROG. It runs on a PC and provides an SQL interface to DB2 for i. What's more, it's free. Let me show you one way I frequently use it. READ MORE >

Do-It-Yourself Data Types
by Jon Paris

I still fondly remember that 'ah-ha!' moment many years ago when I was first introduced to the S/38 and discovered the joys of the consistency that resulted from centrally described data items and the ability to define a new field as looking like another. While other languages I had worked with, such as COBOL, had copy directives that allowed you to bring in standard definitions, the S/38 was the only machine I had come across where such ideas were built into the actual system itself and all of the compilers took advantage of them in one way or another. READ MORE >