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  • IBM Rolls Out ACS 1.1.8.5

    August 12, 2020 Alex Woodie

    IBM last week introduced a new release of Access Client Solutions (ACS), the popular IBM i client that’s used by administrators, programmers, and engineers alike. There are enhancements to Run SQL Scripts, new 5250 viewing options, and a performance boost for viewing selected files on the IFS with version 1.1.8.5, among other mostly minor updates.

    According to the release notes associated with the new iteration of ACS, IBM made a handful of changes with version 1.1.8.5.

    Let’s start with the improvements to Run SQL Scripts, which is an increasingly popular utility in ACS that leverages the power of SQL and …

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  • Guru: Better Check Constraints

    November 11, 2019 Ted Holt

    This article has three purposes. If you use check constraints in your database, the purpose is to help you make better use of check constraints. If you don’t use check constraints, the purpose is to encourage you to use them and to point you in the right direction. If you already know all this stuff, the purpose is to goad you to email me and teach me something I don’t know.

    The purpose of check constraints is to keep invalid data out of the database. That may seem unnecessary. Isn’t that what the applications are supposed to do? Yes, but …

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  • Attention Synon Users: You Can Automate Your Move To RPG Free Form And DevOps

    April 3, 2019 Philippe Magne

    (Sponsored Content) Depending on who you ask, there are about 1,000 IBM i shops that used the CA 2E (Synon) CASE tool to create their applications and are still using this tool to maintain those applications. This is not an easy task any more, and there is a much better way.

    After three years in development and very stringent testing with five early adopter Synon shops, ARCAD Software is rolling out what it calls Modernization as a Service, or MaaS for short, which seeks to completely automate the move from Synon generated code to modern RPG Free Form, …

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  • Transforming The Art Of Code And The Face Of IBM i

    January 24, 2018 Philippe Magne

    (Sponsored Content)  ARCAD has been in business for 25 years, and we have done a lot of technical innovation over those years. We started our business with traditional software change management, on the software change management at that time, which is the combination of having a set of tools to manage developer work and then to transfer from development to test to production. At that time, of course, it was only for OS/400 and then IBM i production platforms. There are some customers with many production machines, but the typical case involves two machines: one for development and …

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