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Seiden Group Unveils A PHP Distro For IBM i

January 11, 2021 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops that are looking for PHP alternatives on IBM i may be interested to know that Seiden Group is now distributing and supporting its own PHP distribution. Called CommunityPlus+, the PHP runtime is distributed via RPM, includes a slew of components (including Db2 database connectors), and is available with technical support, if desired.

Seiden Group’s free CommunityPlus+ distribution is a PHP runtime for software written in PHP versions 7.3 and 7.4, with support for PHP 8.0 coming soon. The software runs in the IBM i PASE environment in 64-bit mode, and includes a slew of database drivers, …
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Thoroughly Modern: DevOps Refactoring Of RPG Applications with RDi

January 11, 2021 Ray Everhart

Regardless of your current situation – namely, the size and age of your codebase – there is great value to be gained from refactoring. In this article, I will explain what refactoring is, provide the business justification, and describe some refactoring best practices.

So what is refactoring? In the strictest sense of the word, refactoring is when you improve the quality of code without changing what it does. Refactoring is not about enhancements or bug fixes, but code quality and making the code more efficient and maintainable. Code refactoring also improves readability, which makes QA and debugging go much more …
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Guru: Fall Brings New RPG Features, Part 2

January 11, 2021 Jon Paris

In my previous tip I outlined some of the new features added to RPG with the Fall 2020 release. In this and the following tip I will be covering the features that I ran out of space for in that first one.

This time I will cover the new FOR-EACH loop construct. I have wanted this in RPG ever since encountering it in PHP. Simply put, it automatically iterates through an array, “serving up” one element at a time. When I say “an array” I mean any kind of array, including data structure arrays, dynamic arrays and even the new …
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More Vintage Power Systems Feature Withdrawals

January 11, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

In with the new and out with the old is a common theme around this time of the year. It may not be officially spring yet – in fact, we are 71 days away from the vernal equinox here in the northern hemisphere – but Spring Cleaning can and does happen at any time in the IBM product catalog.

And so it was as 2020 was coming to an end and after we had out the last issue of The Four Hundred for last year to bed.

In announcement letter 920-167, IBM is withdrawing a number of different features …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 1

January 11, 2021 Doug Bidwell

This is the first IBM i PTF Guide of 2021, so we wish everyone a Happy New Year and we are declaring here and now that 2021 will be a better year than 2020, and as it is written, so let it be done.

Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

PTF Groups 7.4:
- TCP/IP
PTF Groups 7.3:
- TCP/IP
PTF Groups 7.2:
- TCP/IP
PTF Groups 7.1:
- Nothing, as is usually the case unless something really funky is going on. And considering that Big Blue is now supporting IBM i 7.1 on logical partitions on Power9
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Seiden Group Unveils A PHP Distro For IBM i

Thoroughly Modern: DevOps Refactoring Of RPG Applications with RDi

Guru: Fall Brings New RPG Features, Part 2

More Vintage Power Systems Feature Withdrawals

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 1

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