A bit of background to start with today, I’ve recently been learning how to setup NodeJS on IBM i (again big plug here for Andy Youens series to get you started.) After completing a few tutorials, I started looking at pulling data out of the local tables using the idb-connector package, more on that another […]
Download Director – now with less Oracle
For those of you who haven’t already read it, I’d highly recommend starting with Steve Bradshaws article “Do I need to pay for Java?” from January. After following the setup guide on the IBM site so that I was using OpenJ9 I was left with the question “I’d rather like to use Download Director, how […]
Who invited SYSMSG
Another in my catalogue of “everyone and their mother has done this if they needed to, but here’s a slight twist on it” articles. To set the scene, a customer of mine decided they want their Power server in an enquiry state and so setup some new generic profiles with generic menus sans all their […]
Leaving SEU behind – ILEditor
After sitting in a number of the SiD sessions at the international i-Power event this year, one key fact I took away is “you really need to get off SEU.” However, I’m a little cost-averse so can’t quite justify jumping straight to RDi, luckily the open source community is ready to step into that gap. […]
Node-red on i – 5733OPS not required
Inspired by Andy Youens series of articles on Node and Open Source on IBMi, I decided to try setting up Node-red on one of my servers. I’ve also got to give credit to a post on the IBM developer site: https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/i-running-node-red/ The main difference is that where the walk-through uses licensed program 5733OPS I decided […]
“What am I letting myself in for?”
“What am I letting myself in for? “ One of many thoughts going through the mind of the Aspie on his way to the i-power event in the middle of his third minor panic attack. Maybe not the intro you’re expecting, but I’d like to talk now about why it’s worth the trip. For […]
HMC’s – descriptive errors optional
I’ve been having great fun recently trying to upgrade one of my HMCs and figure I shall now share with you all the woes in the hope that the next person to have this problem can find the solution a little easier. If you read all the way through there’s also a couple of bits […]
Ping unto eternity
A slightly pretentious title for an article that doesn’t deserve it, but you must indulge yourself every so often. If you’ve ever used the PING command from a windows command line I imagine you’re familiar with the -t option that will leave it running until you have the information you want. I found myself needing […]
DSPIFSLCK and the profile that would not delete
DSPIFSLCK and the profile that would not delete Mixing a little of promoting useful utilities with my frustration when I can’t get something to work. To set the scene, I’ve been trying to remove an old developer profile from one of our production machines. For whatever reason every time I try to delete it I […]
Old solutions causing new problems – DSPFD and RGZPFM
A cautionary tale that I’m sure many of you will never have to deal with, but if it stops one person pulling out quite as much hair as I did then it can’t be all bad. One of the bits of maintenance I can normally get my customers to agree to, even if they’re a […]