It’s Simple – HA4i!

Introducing Shield’s Technical YouTube channel. How did this come about? In recent weeks, we have completed an inordinate number of live demos for our High Availability solution HA4i. We felt it was time to put […]

Message Monitoring via the web

There are a number of message monitoring products out there for the IBM i which have been around for a long time. While were were looking at the remote monitoring possibilities using the Nagios/NEMS for […]

Upper and Lower built in functions come to RPG

When I saw these mentioned in the list of new enhancements made to RPG in IBM i 7.2 TR and And 7.3 TR10 the word “Finally” escaped my lips. Now we have built in functions, BiF, that would allow us to easily convert upper case letters to lower case, and vice versa.

For years I have been able to convert the case of characters in CL:

CHGVAR VAR(&STRING1) VALUE(%UPPER(&STRING1))

CHGVAR VAR(&STRING2) VALUE(%LOWER(&STRING2))

And in SQL too:

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