What is not to LUG ❤️#IBMiLUG about spending the better part of the week virtually collaborating with our largest #IBMi clients? We covered IBM i futures, #Power10, and a smorgasbord of Systems Management topics. Thank you to all that participated! Hope to see you in 2022.

What is not to LUG ❤️#IBMiLUG about spending the better part of the week virtually collaborating with our largest #IBMi clients? We covered IBM i futures, #Power10, and a smorgasbord of Systems Management topics. Thank you to all that participated! Hope to see you in 2022.

– Stacy L. Benfield (@StacyB_IBMi)07:48 – Sep 25, 2021

Guru: Alternate SQL Row-Selection Criteria Revisited Revisited

I am not a “do as I say and not as I do” kind of person. After I wrote the article Guru: Alternate SQL Row-Selection Criteria Revisited, I got serious about using dynamic SQL in my RPG programs instead of enabling and disabling logical expressions in the WHERE clause. I’m reliving the days when OPNQRYF was my best friend, trying to make apostrophes play nice with string concatenation.

Overall, I’m happy with the change. When I have converted the switch-laden version to dynamic SQL, I have seen a noticeable performance improvement in some cases, and at least a slight

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IBM Adds Public Cloud Targets For IBM i Cloud Backup

The cloud has become a popular place for organizations to store backups. And with the recent Technology Refreshes (TRs) for IBM i, the number of targets for the Cloud Storage Solutions for i has increased significantly.

IBM debuted Cloud Storage Solutions for i back in 2016 as a connector that allowed Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) to push IBM i backups over the Amazon S3 protocol to the Cleversafe object storage system running in SoftLayer, the public cloud platform that would become IBM Cloud in 2018 (IBM would subsequently rename Cleversafe as IBM Cloud Object Storage).

IBM has augmented

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