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New RDi Ready For IBM i Developers

September 21, 2015 Dan Burger

Friday was the first day of RDi 9.5 season. The general availability of the latest edition of IBM‘s modern RPG development environment was celebrated with fireworks, champagne, and raucous cheering at IBM i shops from Boston to Berlin to Beijing. If only it were that illustrious. The adoption rate of RDi is unquestionably on the rise, but the pace is closer to a rustle than a hustle. Maybe the new RDi enhancements will up the tempo.

Of all the new features added to RDi 9.5, there are three that may turn up the power of persuasion somewhat for shops

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Mad Dog 21/21: Land, Hope, And Glory

September 21, 2015 Hesh Wiener

The remarkable Edwin Land was a persnickety inventor who wove science and art, a college dropout who never stopped learning and teaching. Land and his Polaroid Corporation built a tower of brilliant things; the SX-70 camera stood at its pinnacle. His life and work inspired Steve Jobs, mastermind of the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes app store, and the magnificent, inimitable Apple Inc. After Land left Polaroid, it withered into a husk. Since Steve Jobs died, Apple, IBM’s only hope, has struggled. If Apple eventually collapses as Polaroid did, its demise will accelerate the ruin of IBM.

Jobs’

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IBM Issues HiPER And Security Patches For V5R4

September 21, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Here is a weird one. Last week, IBM released PTF patches for OS/400 V5R4, also known as i5/OS 5.4, the venerable release of OS/400 that came out in February 2006 and that was withdrawn from marketing in May 2011 and had its standard Software Maintenance ended in September 2013. Extended maintenance is still running for those customers who pay for it, and will continue to do so until September 30, 2016.

While this Program Support Extension (PSE) support does offer tech support for the V5R4 stack on Power Systems and earlier machines, it has always been my understanding that Big

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Hacker Defends DEF CON Talk on IBM i Vulns

September 16, 2015 Alex Woodie

Two weeks ago we told you about a presentation about hacking the IBM i server that was held at the recent DEF CON conference. Now the hacker behind the presentation is taking exception with assertions in the story, and insists that his hacking technique exploits security flaws in IBM i OS and don’t rely on poor server configurations. Carol Woodbury, a former IBM security architect, looks into the hacker’s new claims.

Bart Kulach, who runs the www.hackthelegacy.org website and delivered a DEF CON presentation by the same name, sent us this letter. It’s reprinted here with his permission:

Dear Mr.

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SoftLanding Gets Into the Content Management Business

September 16, 2015 Alex Woodie

Most IBM i professionals probably know SoftLanding Systems for the change management software that the company developed. While Turnover remains SoftLanding’s main breadwinner, the UNICOM Global property is further diversifying its offerings with the introduction of a new content management package for IBM i.

Dubbed Columbus, the new product combines elements of both content management (which is about managing information in the enterprise) as well as document management (which is about multi-channel delivery of documents).

As a document management product, Columbus enables IBM i shops to transform existing output into digital formats that can be more readily consumed via Web,

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Toolmaker Jumps Into IBM i Web Development with WOPiXX

September 16, 2015 Alex Woodie

Toolmaker Advanced Efficiency, a German developer of software for the IBM i server, recently rolled out a new framework for developing Web applications that run on IBM i. The software, called WOPiXX, enables programmers to create new Web apps by leveraging their existing RPG skills, the company says.

In the modern Web 2.0 world, developers typically are expected to be fluent in client-centric languages like HTML, JavaScript, and XML. Even in the IBM i space, it’s not uncommon to see companies looking for those rare unicorns who can code the front-end Web apps using those technologies, but also be

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BCD Adds Digital Signatures to Modernization Tool

September 16, 2015 Dan Burger

For many members of the mobile workforce, capturing digital signatures are all in a day’s work. It was just a matter of figuring out how to efficiently and securely collect signatures that identify and authenticate electronic documents. Mobile signature capture is one of the new features BCD Software has added to its green-screen to GUI application modernization tool called Presto. If mobile apps are part of your IT plans, signature capture probably fits in as well.

Mobile access to modernized green-screen applications is improving business processes and customer service, says Marcel Sarrasin , who has helped make that happen for

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EXTOL Helps IBM i Shop with Web Services . . . m-Power Delivers In-Memory Analytics . . . VAULT400 Racks Up Another Win

September 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan

EXTOL Helps IBM i Shop with Web Services

CURT Manufacturing has been using the EXTOL EDI Integrator for i software from EXTOL International for over a decade. But when the tow-hitch manufacturer decided to expand its business on the Web, it needed something to accelerate its new ordering processes.

That’s when it tapped another product from the Pottsville, Pennsylvania, software company: EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) Web Services. With EBI Web Services installed on the company’s Power Systems server, CURT Manufacturing found the solution it needed.

It’s all about ensuring that CURT’s back-end processes could deliver faster response times to requests

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A First Look At SQL Descriptors

September 15, 2015 Paul Tuohy

SQL descriptors allow for incredible flexibility when it comes to constructing dynamic SQL statements and/or processing the results of a dynamic SQL statement. But, since this is an introduction, let’s look at how they can be used in constructing dynamic SQL statements and leave their use in processing results for a later article.

Assume we want to embed the following SQL statement in an RPG program:

select workDept, empno, firstname, lastname from employee
   where workDept  = ?  and
         hireDate  >= ? and
         birthDate >= ?
   order by workDept, empno

The difficulty we have is that comparison values may or may

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Another Reason To Use Unrequired Correlation Names

September 15, 2015 Ted Holt

Almost eight years ago I gave you two good reasons to use a correlation name when SQL did not require one. A recent experience revealed to me another good reason to use an unnecessary correlation name, and I am happy to be able to share that information with you today!

A colleague of mine had an SQL query that ran to completion but produced the wrong results. He asked me to take a look at it, and I’m glad he did, because the experience taught me something. Let me set up the situation for you.

Assume two tables: a table

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