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Consume an IWS Web Service From a VB.NET Client

January 13, 2010 Michael Sansoterra

Note: Source code for RPG program CustListR can be downloaded here.

In my article Publish Result Sets Using Web Services and IWS, I demonstrated how to write an RPG program that can return a result set (i.e., multiple rows of data) to a Web service client using an Integrated Web Services (IWS) server instance.

The benefit of using RPG to publish data as a Web service is that any number of clients can consume the Web service, regardless of OS platform or language. This potentially makes your i data and business logic accessible from anywhere! This tip will

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Joining Incompatible Data

January 13, 2010 Hey, Ted

A physical file contains a nine-byte character acknowledgement number field that consists of a single letter followed by eight digits. I would like to change this field to two fields: a one-byte character and an eight-byte numeric field so that I could join the file to other files that have only the eight-digit numeric value. I realize that I could do a conversion to redefine the field, but that would require extensive changes to our applications. Is there an easier method to redefine the field, such as in a logical file?

–David

You probably don’t have to redefine the field,

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FTPING i5/OS Files to a Unix Server

January 13, 2010 Hey, Joe

Can I use FTP to back-up i5/OS libraries to a Unix server? Management wants to save money by not purchasing an LTO 4 tape library. Instead, they want to use Unix boxes to store i5/OS back-ups, and later send the data to tape. I’ve tried FTPing files between i5/OS and UNIX, but I can’t read the data when it’s transferred back. How do I approach this?

–Charlene

The answers to your questions are “yes” and “no”. Yes, you should be able to easily back-up and save production libraries to a Unix box. No, automated back-up to a Unix box may

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Bartell Launches RPGUI, an Open Source Web Enablement Framework for RPG

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

RPG expert Aaron Bartell is spearheading a new open source development project called RPGUI that aims to radically simplify the development of Web interfaces for RPG programs and programmers. The project is only about a month old, and there is a lot of work to do. But Bartell is very optimistic about RPGUI’s prospects for eliminating the need for RPG programmers to become experts in Web languages such as JavaScript, and to provide a “no brainer” low-cost option for keeping RPG applications looking modern.

Like many RPG programmers, Bartell professes a love for the language and the overall simplicity of

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Profound Goes GA with i OS-based Web Portal, Atrium

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

Profound Logic‘s Atrium is now in the building. Last week the i OS toolmaker announced the general availability of the new Web portal, which provides a single repository where users can access all of their Web-enabled or modernized green-screen i OS applications. The product, which was first introduced in early 2009 at the COMMON conference in Nevada, also gained new functionality from the beta release in the area of macros.

Atrium is an i OS application portal that runs within a Web browser and provides centralized access to Web-enabled applications. The software is all about speed and safety: The

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DRV Tech Automates i OS Message Notification with New Product

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

SpoolFlex developer DRV Technologies last week unveiled a new product designed to ensure that important i OS system messages get in front of the eyes of operators and administrators, through e-mail or messaging software on the Web or a smartphone. Just as the company’s flagship product, SpoolFlex, automates the distribution of spool files, the new MessageFlex product automates the distribution of errors and other messages generated by the system to help avoid downtime.

MessageFlex monitors all i OS message queues for important messages, such as a failed backup or a problem with DASD. When an important message arrives, MessageFlex automatically

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System i Developer Sets Date for Next RPG & DB2 Summit

January 12, 2010 Dan Burger

System i Developer Sets Date for Next RPG & DB2 Summit

RPG is dead. Long live RPG. Repeat. Chug beer. Write more code. RPG is not going away anytime soon. The amount of RPG code running businesses, if laid end to end, would stretch from Earth to the farthest galaxy–give or take a few light years. Yes, some of that code is as old as the dinosaurs. So how does a 50-year-old programming language survive in a high tech world where most “innovations” have the staying power of a lit firecracker? Evolution.

Those that don’t know RPG from TGIF have

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i365 Aims to ‘SaaS-ify’ ISV Apps with New Cloud Offering

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

i365 yesterday launched a new software as a service (SaaS) enablement program for independent software vendors (ISVs) called the EVault Cloud-Connected Services Platform (EC2S). The Seagate subsidiary aims to leverage its investment and experience from designing and operating the EVault online backup, storage, and data recovery business to tackle the burgeoning market for general-purpose cloud computing, which is expected to generate nearly $10 billion in revenue this year.

The term “cloud computing” took the popular lexicon by storm last year, and quickly became the go-to word for hype-happy enterprise product peddlers, who applied it to nearly everything that connects to

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Abacus Solutions Offers 61-Day i 6.1 Test Drive

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

System i VAR Abacus Solutions last month unveiled a new program that gives customers moving from older releases of i5/OS the chance to test their applications on IBM i 6.1. The hope is that, after the 61 day test is over, the customer will be ready to upgrade production systems to i 6.1, while keeping downtime to a minimum.

The 61-day test drive begins by uploading a replica of the customer’s System i production environment onto a similarly configured server located at Abacus Solutions’ facility. The reseller’s engineers then execute the upgrade process, while fully documenting the steps taken and

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New 10ZiG Ethernet Terminal Caters to System i Needs

January 12, 2010 Alex Woodie

The new TBT-1000 terminal unveiled by 10ZiG Technology last week is an ideal replacement for green-screen terminals, and will be marketed heavily toward the vendor’s System i customer base, 10ZiG says.

The TBT-1000 features a 1 GHz processor, uses the Linux operating system, and supports touch screen displays and a range of legacy ports for connecting to peripherals, says 10ZiG. The device, which 10ZiG has listed at $199, is a bare-bones Ethernet terminal out-of-the-box. A mouse isn’t even required.

But the TBT-1000 can be upgraded with things like support for VMware View 4 and support for PCoIP, which future-proofs the

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