Month: May 2021

Why should you use /Free? Certainly positional RPG is familiar to everyone in our world. Why bother to learn or use /Free? Fortunately, there are a ton of articles out there about the advantages of /Free, so I am not going to belabor it. Just search on “RPG Free advantages”.

By David Shirey

Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 3 of 21st Century RPG: /Free, ILE, and MVC, by David Shirey.

The thrust of /Free is simple: it gives you opcodes and structures that do not have to be in a given column position on the screen. And this allows you to do four things.

The LISTAGG function makes combining row values easier.

By Kent Milligan

Several years have passed since I wrote articles on how to use the Db2 for i Connect By and Recursive Common Table Expression features to combine multiple row values into a single row. The following table represents the type of report that could be generated using the SQL detailed in those articles.

The term “IBM Performance Management for Power Systems” does most likely not immediately ring a bell, my guess is “PM400” does. It was offered for free and as a Dutchman, after I hear the word “free”, you have my attention. PM400 was a service offered by IBM for free, performance reports accessible from a Website […]

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