Timothy Prickett Morgan
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End of Year Feedback
December 1, 2015 Ted Holt
… Read moreWe’ve made it through another year. I hope it’s been a good one for you in spite of the hardships and challenges. Let’s read some of the feedback that I received in 2015 and see what we can learn.
Hey, Ted:
To make a grep search case-insensitive, use the “-i” switch. I also add the “-n” switch to show the line number.
catsplf -j 681206/MYSELF/MYJOB QSYSPRT 1 | grep -in 'smith'
I also have a SCANSPLF command. It is not case insensitive, but that would not be hard to implement.
Keep the great articles coming.
–Bryan
Bryan wrote in
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Data Scrubbing Functions In DB2 For i
November 17, 2015 Hey, Mike
… Read moreImagine a character database field that stores a phone number. No formatting rules are involved, so the values in the column vary such as 8370155738, 837/015-5738, 837-015.5738, etc. We’d like to write an RPG program that allows the user to enter a number, formatted or not, onto the screen and if that string of numbers is found in the table’s phone column, show it to the user. Is there a way to use SQL to strip the non-numeric characters from the phone field, and select the record if the result matches the user input?
–Brad
Hi, Brad.
Scrubbing data is
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An Introduction to Processing XML with RPG, Part 4
November 17, 2015 Jon Paris
… Read moreNote: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.
In the first three parts of this series, I focused on the basics of using RPG’s XML-INTO. In this episode I want to wrap things up by covering two of the more recent additions to this support.
Let’s start with namespaces. I haven’t got time to go into all the whys and wherefores of namespaces. For now let’s just say that they allow you avoid name collisions by qualifying element and attribute names. Since you will encounter them in many documents it is important to understand the
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What Good Is Native .NET On Power?
November 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreAs many of you know, most of us at IT Jungle have advocated for some form of support for the Windows Server platform on Power-based systems since the advent of the PowerPC Alliance nearly 25 years ago. Back then, there really wasn’t a Windows Server platform at all, in fact, and it was not until that alliance that two things became clear: Microsoft had aspirations as a system software provider, and it intended to start down that road by making its Windows desktop operating system available on Power, Alpha, MIPS, and X86 processors.
Except for a few months in the
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R2D2 Is Alive And Well–Inside Your IBM i Server
November 9, 2015 Bob Losey
… Read moreR2D2? That little dome-headed droid that always kept the Star Wars heroes one step ahead of big trouble? Well, not exactly. The one we’re talking about doesn’t roll around, nor does he chirp. But, unlike the movie version, ours is real. He lives inside your IBM i server and he spends his life keeping you out of trouble. . . with never so much as a thank you from his owner.
It’s time he got a little respect, because he works day and night; not only “off the books” but entirely off your payroll. Nevertheless, he’s the best system administrator
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Spring Ahead, Fall Behind
November 9, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreMany of us have been in this community for a long time, and whether or not we mean to, some of us still call our platform the AS/400, or “the four hundred,” or even the iSeries because old habits die hard. Call it what you will, but this is still a community, and it is one that we are members of and, for the most part, one we are all proud to be members. I, for one, wish that we had a better sense of the breadth and depth of this community, something a bit more than just the results
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Why And How To Update The HMC
November 3, 2015 Larry Bolhuis
… Read moreI deliver a session on the HMC to many user groups, including COMMON. Attendance had been falling, so COMMON’s education team had decided to give the session just one more go. This time though I walked into a packed house, with people carrying in chairs and standing along the walls! “What brings you all here at 8 a.m.?” I asked. “You’re going to talk about updating the HMC, right?” was the response. You see IBM had just announced POWER6 severs, and that mandated newer code on the HMC.
Some of you may wonder what an HMC is, so let’s
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Tuning SQL Environments On i
November 3, 2015 Paul Tuohy
… Read moreOne of the frustrating things about being a speaker at conferences is that when you want to attend another session with a topic that peaks your interest, it invariably clashes with when you are speaking. But every now and again, the scheduling gods work in your favor. Such was the case recently, when I was speaking at the excellent International i-Power 2015 conference.
Scott Forstie, IBM‘s DB2 for i business architect, was giving a presentation, “IBM i Services – SQL interfaces into the IBM i operating system.” I had recently done an iTalk with Scott where we had chatted
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Reflections Upon The RPG & DB2 Summit
November 2, 2015 Ted Holt
… Read moreReflections Upon The RPG & DB2 Summit
I just returned home from Chicago and another enjoyable learning experience at the RPG & DB2 Summit. This was the fourth consecutive Summit for me as a member of the session speakers group. I consider it an honor and a privilege to be teaching alongside people like Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Paul Tuohy, Scott Klement, Barbara Morris, and many others. Each Summit has been very beneficial to me, and I suspect it is the same for others who attend.
Meeting and talking with the conference attendees is a treat for me. These are
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How To Join The Power Linux Evolution
November 2, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
… Read moreIt is hard to remember that IBM was not exactly sitting on the sidelines when Linux swept over the datacenter in the early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust. Big Blue saw the rise of Linux early on, among its supercomputer customers, and it was unsure how to preserve its revenue streams from AIX and OS/400 systems while at the same time embracing Linux. Here we are 15 years later, and it looks like IBM finally has its Linux act together on Power.
The question we all have is this: Will it make a difference? Hope springs eternal,