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One of the most fun activities we experience at the RPG & DB2 Summit is the ISV Gong Show. We invited a few of the IBM i companies who participated in the past to come back and re-enact the Gong Show experience for us, one last time.

In this light-hearted event, each software company is given a scant 30 seconds to deliver their best “elevator pitch” to strike up an interest in their product. The companies will vie for your attention – often with humor – in hopes you will decide to check out their product offerings. For those who exceed their 30-second time limit, Paul will delight in using his gong to let them know.

The idea for this post came from a question that was asked on Facebook. Someone wanted to create a subfile that would be projected onto a screen at an event. The subfile would scroll to the next screen of results every so many seconds without the need for someone to press a key on the keyboard.

I was surprised by the replies to the question, some said it was not possible, others gave over complicated examples of how they thought it could be achieved. I knew that to do this was simple, and all the information needed to do this exists in various posts on this website.

I decided to write a program to do what was asked before. I decided to make this a little more interesting:

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