Before I say another word on this, I have to declare that I personally feel that using ACS to run a Printer Emulation should be considered as a last resort. It is great for Home Working, enabling you to print on your own printer when connected to the office via a VPN. It is relatively […]
A screen a story – time to unlock yourself
We humans are creatures of habit, and of course some of these are bad habits. I am no judge here as I have my own set of habits too, good and bad, just ask my wife! As you may know, I am from the Netherlands and in my country, we have a TV commercial which […]
SQLite – Store Tweets
In my previous article, I revealed how easy it is to use an open source database called SQLite on our IBM i server. If you need a refresher, that article can be found on the link here. In this article, I’ll show you all how easy it is to use this lightweight database. Including it […]
IBMi password – pick a number
We’ve all been there, the password expiration has come around (QPWDEXPITV) and you’re struggling to think of a new one that matches the password rules on your system. One day I decided “screw that, the system can pick for me”. Thus I started tinkering in NodeJS, as mentioned in previous articles I’m not a GUI […]
Easily Control that runaway job using IBM i Workload Groups
How to limit high CPU jobs easily If you have any jobs or users that, every now and then, manage to impact the system by using a large amount of CPU, this trick may help. There is a catch! This method only limits jobs that have more than 1 thread. A single thread job will […]
Tim Rowe, from IBM i Development Lab, Rochester USA, chats to PowerWire.eu
PowerWire.eu:- Hello Tim, it is nice to talk to you again. Since we last spoke can you tell our readers what has been happening or what to expect in the IBM i Application and Development arena? Tim Rowe: – Well there is continual stuff happing in Application & Development, one of the beauties of Application […]
SQLite – What is that?
In this article, I’m going to show you another database option we now have on our IBM i. All these choices! Little did we think we would have any alternative for a database, we expected only to have the excellent DB2 for i. So, what is it? SQLite is a serverless database, self-contained and is […]
Convert Spool File To PDF or Text File
On most systems I work on there are simply far too many spool files. Spool files are no doubt a useful source of information but what is also in no doubt is that spool file maintenance is one of the last tasks on anyone’s agenda. However, on every system there are spool files which are […]
Should we strive to improve our code?
Last week, I was looking for “CPF2234 Invalid Password” messages, for a program I am writing. I assumed that I would find them in QSYSOPR, but there weren’t any. So, I tried DSPLOG and there they were. “Oh no”, I hear you say, “Why are you using 5250 Green Screen?”. I will admit that I […]
Finding Non-Encrypted Connections to your IBM i
Connecting securely to our systems is more important now than ever before and this is just as true for IBM i as any other platform. As I’m sure you know you can encrypt your connections to IBM i at no extra cost and there have been many articles written on how to set this up. […]
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