We would like to merge the Resource Assigned Calendar from our JDE Service Management software with the Outlook Calendar so that we only need to look in one place. We also want to receive an email from Outlook and create a case.

How can we approach this?

–Robert

Hi, Robert:

As always, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and this calendar synchronization task is no exception.

The approach I will be taking to solve this problem is to allow an Outlook client to monitor the ERP system’s calendar table using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) coding.

I’ve never liked the idea of functions modifying their parameters. It seems to me that a function should accept zero or more input values and return one and only one value. Modifying a parameter is a roundabout way of returning another value. While looking for something in the ILE RPG reference recently, I found yet one more reason why it’s not a good idea for a function to modify a parm.

This is IBM‘s example code with my modifications to make it run.

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Like many i/OS shops, we recently started upgrading several systems from i/OS V5R4Mx to i 6.1. One of the more interesting features about i 6.1 is the new Password rules (QPWDRULES) system value, which allows you to control and extend password composition settings to designate all your password rules in one place and to include password composition options that weren’t available in earlier versions of the operating system.

What is QPWDRULES?

Think of QPWDRULES as a password composition rule aggregator. In earlier i/OS and AS/400 operating systems, IBM did not consolidate password composition system values in one place on