Free RPG Editor – ILEDITOR could be called RDi Lite ;)
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. I’ve been waiting for a simple free-format RPG editor for the longest time. Opensource ILEditor delivers. It’s free, open source, actively maintained and...
View ArticleBetter performance for re-entrant programs aka reduce static storage
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. I found this article ages ago and book marked it. I just re-read it and found it just as pertinent today as when it was written 15+ years ago! Tips to reduce...
View ArticlePlaying with Secure (SSL) FTP on IBM i Power System
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. Or as the grey haired folks would say “How to configure the ISERIES FTP server to use SSL” or as the geriatric brigade would say “making the AS400 talk using...
View ArticleDSPLY Sucks. QUILNGTX Rocks.
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. AKA – writing a new DSPLY opcode that shows more than 52 characters Using the DSPLY opcode to quickly debug a program has long been a staple of us RPG keyboard...
View ArticleGravityforms write to SQL with the WPDB plugin
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. This week I ‘ave mostly been… trying to create a Gravity Form to allow users to pay for a Memberpress subscription using Stripe and then login and immediately...
View ArticleMake ‘System Request 3’ do WRKJOB instead of DSPJOB
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. AKA Command Line Access from System Request 3 If you are an IBM I software developer or power user – then that headline will make sense. In fact, I can...
View ArticleWhat is DevOps and how does it work?
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. DevOps helps businesses respond to business, project and market changes quickly and fluidly. I’m not sure if fluidly is a word, but if its not, well, it should...
View ArticleSet off all RPG Indicators in a program
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. RPG INDICATORS are switches Just like car indicators (or ‘blinkers’ as my American cousins call them) they can be switched *ON or *OFF in a program to indicate...
View ArticleHow to find the fastest DNS Server
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. I’ve been playing with my home Wifi this week, trying to resurrect my old SCALEO Home Server which has been in deep coma since a brown out a few months ago. But...
View ArticleUbuntu 18 is here – upgrade for a tidy looking Beaver
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. What’s new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in favour of GNOME. I was a little...
View ArticleUse IBM i SQL to validate email addresses in Customer Master File
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. So, we have a customer masterfile that’s been around for years. Users have been keying in customer info and sometimes adding email addresses, sometimes not,...
View ArticleModernize AS400 iSeries Queries – Convert to IBM i SQL
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. This week I be mainly…. working on a Casino System upgrade, dragging decades old code into the twenty first century. Old RPG3, RPG400, CLP programs and...
View ArticleHow to compare ‘100 Year Date’ to a Timestamp – aka – Weird AS400 iSeries...
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. Back in the good old days of single megabyte disks the size of a shoebox, when hard drives were called Winchester Drives and the only phones we used were...
View ArticleIBM i SQL statement to convert or compare hundred year date format
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. I had to pull records from two files with a matching date value in each file. To make things interesting, the date on one file was stored in timestamp format...
View ArticleIBM i ACS 5250 EMULATOR FONT – and other ridiculous mumbo jumbo
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. What’s in a font? Lots of things make our life easier as IBM i Programmers. Working with a clean, easy to read 5250 terminal mode is one of the them. I’m a big...
View ArticleTurnover Tip – Checkout to new library retaining source line changes dates
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. Wow – that’s another long url title. I really wanted to call this “How To Check Out An Object From One Library And Promote It To A Different Library but keep...
View ArticleSimple email validation SQL RPG ILE program
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. There are lots of code snippets, example programs and long waffling discussions in internet land filled with pointy headed AS400, iSeries and IBM i programmer...
View ArticleFunky IBM i Email Validation Program using SQL Regex
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. Following on from my previous blog (basic email validation) I decided that it would much nicer to (a) have the regex stored in a data area so that we can easily...
View Article‘device file does not contain an entry for screen size’ after upgrade to IBM...
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. Upgraded our IBM i systems to IBM i V7.3 yesterday and so far everything is running nicely except for this one weird little glitch: some of the existing DDS...
View ArticleIBM i User Profile – Special Authorities
Waffle from the brain box of NickLitten. IBM i Authority is a wonderful beast with many layers of complexity. Like a big red onion, peeling back these layers is simple to do, but sometimes causes some...
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