Don’t ignore the risks presented by objects, profiles, and products that are no longer in use.
You can (and should) use this service to look for old objects in other libraries, especially user libraries. Read More
Common: Next Steps: A Little Bit Beyond the Basics — Scott Forstie & Sue Romano learn.common.org
Unions
Nested subselects
Common table expressions
Commitment / Transaction Control Journaling
Views
High level SQL Performance Read More
IBM i Community Shares 2024 Predictions Alex Woodie
Spaceship Earth has completed another trip around the Sun, which means one thing: Time for 2024 IBM i predictions! Hopefully you enjoy this year’s predictions, which seem to sport a good mixture of optimism and realism.
The future for IBM i is wide open – open source, that is, says Liam Allan, the creator of Code for IBM i and a software developer for IBM i.
“My prediction is pretty simple. Businesses will continue to invest in themselves through the power of open source,” Allan says. “Whether it be using dev tools, open source runtimes like Node.js, or even newer …
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Thoroughly Modern: How IBM i Shops Can Navigate The AI Landscape In 2024 Marc Hunter
AI continues to have an influence on us in 2024, and beyond. Implementing AI in a tangible way will require IBM i leaders to navigate diverse problems, capabilities, opinions, and experiments. It will pave the way for evolving our strategies, and possibly even developing an entirely new set of approaches.
Think of it in terms of making pizza: We have many recipes that make good pizza, we know what toppings work together, we know how much seasoning we need. When a revolutionary new ingredient is introduced, we need to reevaluate every recipe going forward – is this an ingredient that …
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Guru: Using Mixed Lists To Add “Data Structures” To CL Commands Ted Holt
I can’t remember the last time I worked on an RPG program that had no data structures, but it was probably on a System/34. Everybody uses data structures, and with good reason – they are as handy as a pocket. When writing CL commands, it is possible to include parameters that are formatted as data structures. IBM calls them mixed lists. In the following paragraphs, I show how this is accomplished.
You may not realize it, but you have used IBM-supplied commands that have mixed-list parameters. For example, the Copy File (CPYF) command has several such parameters: FROMKEY, TOKEY, INCCHAR, …
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