Printing without pain: a guide to output queues
"It will not print" is the most frequent report and the one with the fewest things to check: queue, writer, printer. In that order, and it takes two minutes.
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Recipes
Short solutions to recurring problems, with ready-to-use code and the caveats to consider before running it in production.
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CL commands with the abbreviation spelled out, CPF and SQLCODE messages with the most frequent cause, IBM i Services with the corresponding command. Searchable lists.
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Editor extensions, programs and command line tools useful for IBM i work. Unlike the tools on this site, which run in the browser, these are installed on your computer or on the system.
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End of support dates for IBM i releases, contents of each version, and known incompatibilities introduced at each upgrade.
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IBM i and AS/400 job listings in Italy. Postings are reviewed before publication and expire automatically.
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All articles →Understanding journals and how to use them
The journal records every change to your data, with the time and the name of who made it. It exists for recovery, but day to day it mostly answers one question: who changed this record?
Integrating IBM i with REST services
Calling an external API from an RPG program needs no extra software and no rewrite: it can be done in SQL, in a few lines. The available routes, and when each one makes sense.
Object security on IBM i
Many installations run on users who hold *ALLOBJ because "otherwise it does not work". How you end up there, and how to get out without stopping anybody's work.