Today’s developers often wear many hats: programmer, operator, help desk, and database administrator. Furthermore, they often support software on many operating systems (various versions of Windows, Linux, Unix, and so forth) with various versions of application software (Microsoft Office 97 or 2003, ERP clients, and so on) using a variety of developer tools (Visual Studio, Visual Studio .NET, Websphere Development Studio Client, Delphi, and others).

It can be quite overwhelming for companies with small budgets to create testing and development environments for such a wide array of software. Fortunately, there is a way to deal with this type of

A physical file that I’ve loaded with data from another system has a department field that I would like to use for sorting. The department field contains a description, rather than a code. I need to sort the data on the description, but not in alphabetical order. That is, I want a certain department to appear first, then a certain department to appear next, and so on. The only way I know to pull this off is to create a little table that lists the departments and the order each one appears in the sort, but I do not like

The SQL0901 error is an incredibly frustrating error that occurs with i5 ODBC, OLE DB, and JDBC connections. Because SQL0901 is a general SQL error, it can be difficult to diagnose and harder to solve. This week I will look at one specific SQL0901 scenario, where the failure occurs inside SQL’s extended dynamic package support, and I will show you how to deal with this error in an i5 environment.

What is Extended Dynamic Package Support?

While the SQL0901 error can refer to a broad range of issues, this article focuses on diagnosing and correcting problems associated with SQL extended