Tattoo Adventures of an Inky Software Developer
Tale of a Tattoo Nearly thirty years ago, while working in the USA for the first time, I found myself sitting in a hotel bored out of my mind and decided to get a Tattoo. Yup, the impetuousness of...
View ArticleFacemasks are the new Chique
Covid Facemasks have become a new religion The World Health Organization seems to sum this up very nicely. Listen to medical experts recommend who should wear masks and when to wear one: This is common...
View ArticleWhere can I Download Free IBMi (AS400) 5250 Terminal Emulator?
What is a 5250 Terminal Emulator? In a previous blog about 5250 Emulators: The IBM i System (aka i5 aka iSeries aka AS/400) uses something called 5250 to stream its data to a terminal, often called a...
View ArticleSick of Covid?
I’m sick of Covid It’s time for another Covid Rant 🙂 I posted on social media this morning, expressing my opinion that: “I believe some governments are mishandling the Covid19 pandemic response and...
View ArticleNice example of an IBM i RPG Subfile program written in RPG /Freeform?
Playing with a RPG Subfile Poking around on the filthiest corners of the IBM i Programmers internet this morning, I stumbled across someone else’s sample subfile template for an RPG program. This is...
View ArticleExample of an IBM i RPG Single Page Subfile
What are single page subfiles? A single page subfile is a SCREEN OF DISPLAYED DATA, loaded one page at a time. The displayed data is equal to the maximum number of records which can be displayed at a...
View ArticleJobbie
Since living in Edinburgh in the early ’80s, I’ve been amused by various Scottish words for common, everyday objects or activities. Possibly my favorite is JOBBIE So, imagine my surprise when I...
View ArticleNew Kettle – William Wood Valiant (Bronze Special Edition)
New Watch for my collection – William Wood Valiant Bronze My new William Wood Valiant (Bronze Special Edition) just arrived after swimming across the pond 👌 looking forward to seeing how this bronze...
View ArticleBest Youtube Alternative in 2021?
YouTube has become Big Brother It’s time to look for a Youtube Alternative! America’s First Amendment prohibits the government from passing a law that requires any company to censor content....
View ArticleConditional Selection in RPGLE and CLLE
How to use ‘Conditional Selection in RPGLE and CLLE’ Way back in 2008, I wrote this blog about how to do various condition selection in RPG. So, I suppose it time to modernize those code examples in...
View ArticleHow to Change WooCommerce Variable Products “Select Options” to “Add to cart”
WooCommerce Variable Products Working on the Snug CBD website this morning, I found that the when you add a SIMPLE PRODUCT to WooCommerce it shows the BUY NOW text as ADD TO CART by default. But when...
View ArticleExecuting an IBM i TURNOVER Promotion form
What happens when your TURNOVER Promotion form runs? A TURNOVER® for iSeries v100 form runs in several phases. Pre-run Processing: Phase I All preliminary processing is done including pre-run exits,...
View ArticleRDi beats SEU because – Searching for Subroutines
My mate Toby sent me this email: I love RDI … But I do come across one issue that I’m sure you can sort out… using SEU if I wanted to find the start of a subroutine, I always made them # something like...
View ArticleIneffective Covid face masks – Why are people wearing them?
I’m still on a Covid rant 🙂 Covid19, SAR-COV-2, the dreaded CORONA VIRUS is Real! But… it’s not like the black plague! This is not Ebola, it’s not SARS, It’s politics playing a medicine and that’s a...
View ArticleParler is the new Twitter | How to download the APP
PARLER the last bastion of “FREE SPEECH” During the course of 2020, we have seen the dystopian silencing of free speech on social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. New discourse...
View ArticleSnug CBD
I recommend Snug CBD I love Snug CBD products. Snug recently launched a brand-new line of comestibles instilled with cannabidiol, Snug CBD (snugcbd.com) What is CBD? CBD is one of the magical chemical...
View ArticleFix RDI – Formatting Failed: No Model Available
IBM Rational Developer for IBM i Trying to format your RPGLE source code and seeing “Formatting Failed: No Model Available”? One of the nicest features of using RDI, compared to the old world of green...
View ArticleIs IBM i RRN Unique?
No – RRN is not unique (unless we force it to be and don’t care if disk is wasted) IBM i Tables (aka AS400 files) have a unique number assigned to every row in the table. This number is called a...
View ArticleIBM i Change Management Documentation for TURNOVER V101
TURNOVER V101 Documentation After recently upgrading to the latest fixpack for TURNOVER V101, I have all the latest documenation sitting in a folder on my desktop. “Oh what an exciting life you lead Mr...
View ArticleIBM i Change Management – Using Mixed Case password in TURNOVER
UNICOM TURNOVER – Software Change Management System Problem – TURNOVER uses an uppercase 10 character password by default If you are thinking of changing your USRPRF(TURNOVER) password to anything –...
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