Given how much work I do with XML files in the IFS on the IBM i there is often the need to quickly create a stream file.  Over the years I have become more and more comfortable with using QShell as a means to accomplish many tasks and in this case I found a solution [...]

This past week I found myself doing communication traces because I had an RPG-XML Suite (www.rpg-xml.com) customer needing to communicate with a non-traditional web service.  By “non-traditional” I mean they remote web service doesn’t use HTTP and instead uses raw sockets, and they also require start/end hex character codes at the beginning and end of [...]

For those that don’t know, there is an effort under way by Mihael Schmidt to create a AS400 source editor named RPGNextGen.  Lately I have been submitting tickets and am amazed at how fast the features/fixes are being added to the tool.  For example, I just submitted a ticket 5 minutes ago asking that Fast [...]

I learned of an interesting “jab” Sun took at IBM AIX this past week (see below link).  Makes me wonder what Sun would say if their offerings were compared against the IBM i.   I know very little about Solaris (I have played with OpenSolaris briefly in VirtualBox) so I don’t really know how it would [...]

Every once in awhile I get a troubled soul wanting to me to look at their troubled Apache config file because it is such a hairy mess that it’s no wonder they are having issues with it.  This past week while presenting a sessions at COMMON (i.e. SOAP, WSDL, XML, HTTP, What the?) someone asked [...]