[[{“value”:”IBM i applications have been a cornerstone of many industries, but with the rapidly evolving digital landscape, modernizing legacy IBM i applications has become a necessity. Updating these systems is essential for improving performance, adaptability, and overall business agility. This is where RAMP steps in. RAMP (Rapid Application Modernization Process) by LANSA offers a seamless
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WRKJOBSCDE Drawbacks and How to Overcome Them Fortra
Interested in learning more about your IBM i needs? Click here to schedule a consultation: https://www.fortra.com/solutions/ibmi-as400/contactIf free schedulers like WRKJOBSCDE, Cron, and Windows Task Scheduler are your primary means of automation, then you’re doing your business a disservice. Our customer discussions have uncovered that those who primarily leverage the native scheduler still run many tasks manually, have to build and recompile CL programs, and can’t configure job dependencies. Watch IBM i experts Tom Huntington and Chuck Losinski to learn how Fortra’s Robot Schedule improves the accuracy and efficiency of your task management, by: – Troubleshooting and monitoring from a GUI – Setting up dependency processing between batch, interactive and Windows (or Linux/Unix) – Building a holiday calendar We’ll also demonstrate how Robot Schedule imports jobs from the native or AJS scheduler automatically!Watch today to discover the far-reaching impact that true IBM i automation has on the business and your IT resources. Read More
AI & Open Source on IBM i dominates i-UG Conference Agenda PaulR
[[{“value”:”On 20th February 2025, i-UG’s next conference will take place at the Norton Grange Hotel in Rochdale. AI and Open Source dominate the agenda for the first i-UG event of the year. The agenda will be mirrored at the South conference, which takes place on 13th March at IBM’s office on York Road, London. i-UG
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I am a new programmer with 9 months of experience. I’ve learned a lot and have gotten comfortable working with RPG, but what can I do to learn more and improve? iguessitwillbefun
[[{“value”:”Title. I’ve been working with the iBM i for about 9 months. I am comfortable programming in both fixed format RPG as well as RPG free. I am also comfortable working with and writing CL programs. What else can I do to improve? What tools can I learn to up skill myself and make myself more marketable?
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I was today’s years old when I learned… Simon Hutchinson
[[{“value”:”In my 37 years of working with IBM midrange, and especially IBM i and its predecessors, I learned something new that has blown my mind.
Spool as in “spool file” is an acronym!
I have always thought that “spool” was the queue of spool files on an output queue. A long list of spool files would be like piece of thread from a spool of thread. It turns out my assumption is wrong.
I have Alan Seiden to thank for bringing this to my attention.
It turns out the definition of a “spool” is:
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