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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Git Demystified: True Modern DevOps Tooling for IBM i Developers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

​Many IBM i developers are being asked by their leadership to adopt the same Git-based DevOps tooling used across the rest of their IT group.

But most long-time IBM i developers aren’t convinced that this approach will bear fruit as they haven’t had the opportunity to be exposed to even the fundamental concepts of Git.

So where do you start?

This webinar will explain the basics of Git, tailored for IBM i developers, including:

– IBM’s perspective on Git and modern tooling for the i
– Git principles and how they compare to traditional IBM i methods
– The benefits of using Git for managing your COBOL and RPG source code
– Free resources available to continue your learning

Whether it’s Git-Hub, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket on your CIO’s mind, an understanding of Git fundamentals will equip you for the discussion. Read More 

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Share & Communicate your SQL with Style Kent Milligan – IBM Technology Expert Labs

​The Run SQL Scripts tool provided by IBM i Access Client
Solutions (ACS) does a great job of making an SQL statement more understandable
with its color highlighting of SQL keywords and its formatting of the statement
text.
I think you would agree that it would be great if that same
highlighting and formatting could ride along with your SQL statement text to
make it clearer to your peers when sharing your SQL via email, presentations, design docs, etc. This actually is possible – assuming that you have ACS 1.1.9.2
or later installed on your workstation.
The Run SQL Scripts auto-prompting
support for host variables and parameter markers got all the fanfare when
ACS 1.1.9.2 was released, but this version of ACS also delivered Rich Text Format copy
capabilities. Without this new capability, the following figure shows how the SQL
syntax highlighting disappears when an SQL statement text is copied from Run
SQL Scripts to a word processing tool or an email.Now that the Run SQL Scripts
copy captures the rich text format (i.e., color highlighting) associated with your SQL statement, you’ll
be able to choose the highlighted Paste Option on the left as shown below to preserve the
source statement format when performing a paste operation.Once
you select the  highlighted Keep Source Formatting paste option in the prior figure, the SQL will be transformed
back to the highlighted and formatted SQL statement  as shown below. It’s the same stylish presentation as Run SQL
Scripts, but available in a different medium.Hopefully, it’s now clear to how newer versions of ACS enable you to
communicate and share your SQL statement text in a more comprehensible format. Read More 

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