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Stretch Imagination with SQL Part1
ByScenario Let’s take a simple query like. It gives quite useful information, right? In fact, 109 columns of information that I have to scroll through all right through the screen.…
Your Guide to Using cURL
ByAt the two recent i-UG (the largest IBM i User Group in the UK), I gave a presentation about three great open-source utilities on the IBM i. Those being: Having…
IBM i 7.6 Release
From Steve Will on the 8th April 2025 Happy new release day IBM i community! Welcome to 2025 and my first blog of the year. We are starting the new…
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Stretch Imagination with SQL Part1
Scenario Let’s take a simple query like. It gives quite useful information, right? In fact, 109 columns of information that I have to scroll through all right through the screen.…
Your Guide to Using cURL
At the two recent i-UG (the largest IBM i User Group in the UK), I gave a presentation about three great open-source utilities on the IBM i. Those being: Having…
IBM i 7.6 Release
From Steve Will on the 8th April 2025 Happy new release day IBM i community! Welcome to 2025 and my first blog of the year. We are starting the new…
Say Hello to IBM i 7.6
Big, Bold & Better Than Ever! Attention, IBMi fans! The wait is over, and the latest and greatest version—IBMi 7.6—is finally here. Who would have guessed that name! Let us…
A Month of Security Problems
Before we begin my article, let me talk about CVEs. A CVE, or Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, is a standardised system for identifying and cataloguing security vulnerabilities in software and…
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Collection Services Q & R
The “R” in the title is no typo, no Q & A this time. The “R” does refer to the name Collection Services Collection in the screen shot, which is…
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The Year of Many Changes
2025 began a month ago. It is now February 2025, and we are back to our daily responsibilities: tickets, customer calls, and our regular routines. We’ve already forgotten our New…
Choosing the Right Language on IBM i
RPG, ILE, SQL & Open-Source Programming Our grandchildren have just started secondary school and along with the expected French, Spanish and German they have been offered Mandarin. Everyone has welcomed…
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Mapepire Introduction
In my last couple of articles, I have shown python accessing data on the IBM i, accessing both DB2 for i and SQLite. The SQLite article used an SQLite package…
noxDB Intro
In November 2024 I was invited to the Benelux Common conference in the Netherlands to give a couple of workshops, and what a great event it was. I had the…
Passwords: Looking Ahead
Be it auditors, the recent NIS2 Directive , or just common sense, stepping away from IBM i user profiles with never expiring passwords has always been the better choice. Since…
