• A Fast Idle For IBM i Development

  September 27, 2017 Alex Woodie

  One thing that’s clear about Liam Allan is he doesn’t take things slow. At just 20 years of age, Allan is one of the brightest young developers on the platform. Now the British coder is sharing his latest creation with the IBM i world: a lightweight ILE development tool dubbed Idle.

  There are many options when it comes to IBM i development tools, especially if open source, Web-native languages are your thing. There’s no shortage of environments for creating PHP, Node.js or Java apps. The opening of the IBM i platform has been a great thing in that regard.

  But …

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• Guru: Passing Parameters From The Command Line

  February 6, 2017 Jon Paris

  In my previous “Fundamentals” tips, I discussed the importance of making sure parameters are the correct size and how to correctly handle omitted parameters. In this tip I want to address what has to be the most frequently asked question about parameters.

  The most frequently asked parameter question comes in many forms, such as:

  • “How do you pass them from the command line?”
  • “Why do I see garbage in the back end of my character parameters?”
  • “Why are my numeric values passed incorrectly?”

  Usually these questions arise when a programmer wants to simplify the testing of a program and does …

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