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  • Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB

    October 5, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    A couple of years ago I needed to develop a process where a group of items could be selected from a screen and a report listing those items could be generated. On the surface, a simple task. Of course, if you give a mouse a cookie, they’re going to want a glass of milk, or another report. . . and another. Again, not too complicated. All that should be needed is a way to submit a call to a variable list of programs. As long as each program

    … Read more
  • Call Again and Again and Again…

    October 5, 2011 Paul Tuohy

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    In programming terms, recursion is the process whereby a function may call itself. Traditionally, this is something we are not used to in RPG. Programs and subroutines cannot call themselves. Or if you did somehow manage it (and you could), you would get unpredictable results.

    But the introduction of subprocedures opened up the possibility of using recursion because subprocedures can call themselves.

    It is usually very difficult to come up with practical examples of using recursion, and most of those examples are usually very specific to an application.

    … Read more
  • Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors

    October 5, 2011 Joe Hertvik

    Your organization’s fiscal year may have ended on September 30. Meaning you could soon be visited by auditors looking for information on how your organization operates its AS/400-class machine (iSeries, System i, Power i). Your auditors will be particularly interested in your password configuration parameters and whether they meet standards. To that end, here’s a quick drill for retrieving password setup values at audit time.

    What Auditors Want

    Auditors generally require you to provide the following sets of password related parameters.

    • Your password configuration parameters–The rules users follow for creating passwords.
    • Configuration and program code for Password Validation Program
    … Read more
  • Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB

    October 5, 2011 Bruce Guetzkow

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    A couple of years ago I needed to develop a process where a group of items could be selected from a screen and a report listing those items could be generated. On the surface, a simple task. Of course, if you give a mouse a cookie, they’re going to want a glass of milk, or another report. . . and another. Again, not too complicated. All that should be needed is a way to submit a call to a variable list of programs. As long as each program

    … Read more
  • Call Again and Again and Again…

    October 5, 2011 Paul Tuohy

    Note: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    In programming terms, recursion is the process whereby a function may call itself. Traditionally, this is something we are not used to in RPG. Programs and subroutines cannot call themselves. Or if you did somehow manage it (and you could), you would get unpredictable results.

    But the introduction of subprocedures opened up the possibility of using recursion because subprocedures can call themselves.

    It is usually very difficult to come up with practical examples of using recursion, and most of those examples are usually very specific to an application.

    … Read more
  • CYBRA Signs European Distributor for RFID and Barcode Products

    October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie

    U.K.-based Power Systems reseller Life IT will distribute CYBRA‘s MarkMagic and EdgeMagic software products in the U.K. and Europe, CYBRA announced last week.

    Life IT is a IBM premier business partner that specializes in IBM i technology, and also sells System p, Domino, and Microsoft products.

    In July, Life IT acquired Professional Software Solutions, an IT solutions provider that owned European distribution rights to CYBRA’s MarkMagic and EdgeMagic and implemented barcode and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions.

    Now that CYBRA and Life IT have validated the new partnership, Life IT intends to continue PSS’ position serving the supply chain

    … Read more
  • Canam Goes JSON with COBOL Integration Tool

    October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Canam Software Labs, a developer of tools to retrofit COBOL applications with XML connectivity, recently announced that its flagship XML Thunder tool can now speak JSON, the standard language for communicating with JavaScript applications.

    Mississauga, Ontario-based Canam Software created XML Thunder to simplify the task of creating new XML integration points for existing COBOL and C code running on IBM i, z/OS, Unisys, HP Nonstop, and Unix platforms. The software features a GUI design tool and wizard-based guides, and automatically generates COBOL and C code that’s mapped to XML documents or simple object access protocol (SOAP) statements.

    Now, you

    … Read more
  • Liaison Goes Multi Platform with B2B Tool

    October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Liaison Technologies last week announced that its Electronic Commerce Server (ECS) software can now run on non-Windows platforms. The product will run on Linux and Unix operating systems–but, alas, not IBM i.

    Liaison, which acquired IBM i software developer nuBridges six months ago, is a specialist in developing tools for managing, distributing, and securing data. Its ECS software distributes a variety of types of data across many different protocols and also provides managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities. When coupled with Liaison’s data translator, called Delta, the pair provides full EDI translation and enterprise application integration (EAI) capabilities.

    ECS version

    … Read more
  • AquaFold Updates Database Editor

    October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie

    AquaFold last week unveiled a major new version of its database query and administration software. With Aqua Data Studio version 10, the software gains enhancements in the areas of security, performance, and support for new source control systems.

    Aqua Data Studio is a Java-based utility designed to provide programmers, database developers, and systems administrators with a single, consistent interface to work with all major database management systems, including DB2/400. The product’s GUI lets users administer, explore, and query their databases and create SQL scripts. It offers an entity relationship modeler; brings comparison tools for analyzing differences in files, directory structures,

    … Read more
  • IBM Adds JEE 6 Support to WebSphere Community Edition

    October 4, 2011 Alex Woodie

    IBM‘s entry-level version of the WebSphere Application Server got a little more robust last week when the company announced it added support for the latest Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) environment with WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (CE) version 3.

    WAS CE is a lightweight and free Web application server designed for running non-critical or departmental-level Java applications. The software, which IBM supports for a fee, is based on Apache‘s open source Geronimo Java application server. IBM got a leg up on the Geronimo business and the development of WAS CE with its acquisition of Gluecode Software in 2005.

    … Read more

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