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​I use SQL almost every day at my job. It may be just a query in ACS, or it may be embedded SQL in an RPG program. A few days ago, I needed to compare the contents of one IFS directory to another. Combining a few different table functions, I was able to develop a nice solution.
In this example, I have a directory that has five text files in it. I have a second directory that has three text files in it, and they are the same documents that are in the first directory. My goal is to identify …
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​The balloons will drop and the champagne will flow this week as the midrange community takes some well-deserved time to party like it’s 1988 and celebrate the 35th anniversary of the IBM i platform.
Not every computing community gets to celebrate 10 years of success for their platform, let alone 35, as backers of the venerable IBM i server will have the honor of doing this week. Many of the folks who work on IBM i today were just starting their IT careers back when IBM launched the AS/400 on that hot June day in 1988, so this week will …
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​The AS/400 is the product of the marriage of the System/36 and the System/38 that had its first child delivered on June 21, 1988. So, to one way of thinking about it, the AS/400 is not just celebrating its 35th birthday this week, but the System/36 and the System/38 are celebrating their Coral Anniversary. The rules of etiquette say that we have to send IBM Rochester something carved in jade to celebrate.
The AS/400, which lives on as the IBM i platform running on Power10 hardware, is neither stuck on a coral reef or jaded, but just going …
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​Happy 35th birthday to the AS/400! We hope that you take a moment and commemorate this wonderful platform that has given us so much over the years, and that we all have given so much to.
It is one of those mercifully quiet weeks, so enjoy.
The news this week is that Navigator will now use Java 17 if available (on 7.4 and 7.5).  Install Java 11 or Java 17 and latest Java group PTF to run Navigator with these versions of Java. Details on Java at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6437873
Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release …
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​1 City – Prague
3,5 days
10 IBM i experts from Volov Group Digital&IT
35 years of IBM i
50 IBM Champions
401 participants

It was great event – Common Europe… Read More