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What you will need: * [Sign up to GitHub](https://github.com/), now. You can find the [BitBucket method here](http://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/scripting/techtip-git-to-bitbucket), by Aaron Bartell. * An editor to make changes to files on the...
For the longest time, I had wanted a native Node.js database driver for Db2 for i. This meant writing the entire socket connection in JavaScript, using `net.Socket`, `Buffer`, and other...
Base64 is wonderful, at times. It can be great for serialization of small binary files, but not large ones. If you use base64 for serialization on binary files and then...
This is the first of two entries. This will be about how to get the information. The second about actually building the dep list. I will keep expanding this post...
Ok, for the last few months I've been playing with different tools to help generate makefiles for very large ILE RPG applications that make use of lots of LF, PF,...
NetRPG was such a passion project when I was into developing it fully. It was so fun to implement display files and to handle EBCDIC literals for multiple CCSIDs. I...
This is a guide to installing PM2 on IBM i. I recommend either using Node.js 8 or Node.js v10 with PM2, which are both available via yum. ### Step 1...
Lately, I've been needing to call shell scripts through bash periodically and it can be a real pain doing it with `QP2TERM`. Instead, you can use QSH to call `bash`...
After you have the IBM i Access ODBC Driver installed for Windows, you can set up a DSN (data source name) which can point to a specific connection. The reason...
This post is going to be able how to write APIs that return JSON in your RPG. There is three layers to this: 1. **Web layer** - this could be...