I’m a big fan of service programs. From a maintainability point of view, encapsulated procedures are great. And exported procedures, which mean you only need to develop any piece of functionality once, are even better. However, I now find myself Read more…
It turns out that there is no simple way of generating a list of files currently residing in a folder on the IBM i IFS. Simple, in this case, would be a command like DSPLNK OUTPUT(*FILE). An API does exist, Read more…
It’s incredible how easily I can be distracted. All I needed was a quick and dirty way of capturing the input into an interface and now I’m writing a blog post. Everything starts with an issue and, in this case, Read more…
A letter from Steve Sibley, IBM’s Vice President of Cognitive Systems, has been floating around for a couple of days now and it’s worth mentioning. The letter starts by ensuring that we are in no doubt about the future of Read more…