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Building an app that uses ODBC to talk to Db2 for i takes some work these days. You need ODBC, the chosen driver (Db2 for i / `iaccess`) and unixodbc...
I am known for telling people I do business with that they do not need to buy any type of product to integrate their open-source environment to their existing ILE...
I have recently been looking into storing unstructured data (JSON) into Db2. This is not only good for storing JSON, but if you want to store information that can expand...
I've just seen this [blog post](http://www.wachs.dk/ile-rpg-function-convert-string-upperlower-case/) and I do only have a two issues with it: * For code that's written in 2016, it's still in fixed format. * It's...
My team has been working hard on preparing the tools needed to make deploying to IBM i easier. Whether you want to build apps in a dev, test, or production...
RPGLE language tools has come a long way in terms of tooling for Visual Studio Code. Writing RPGLE in VS Code is a reality in 2023 (it was in 2022...
DevOps on IBM i is such a hot topic right now and I wanted to write about different areas of DevOps and how you can achieve them on IBM i...
Following on from the last blog, this one will extend your Embedded SQL knowledge. This blog will mainly focus on two things. First: `SQLSTATE` and how to use it to...
This is a follow-up to [my previous GraphQL (Feb 2020)](https://github.com/worksofliam/blog/issues/44) on IBM i post, where this time we use Join Monster to solve the n+1 problem. The n+1 problem indicates...
The question ‘why git?’ comes up a lot in the IBM i world. My personal answer is usually > you’re an idiot if you’re not using git But in a...