SQL Columns with CCSID 1200
I’ve recently been working on an ILE RPG program that needs to read a SQL table that has a VARCHAR column encoded with CCSID 1200 (Unicode). Since RPG doesn’t normally handle Unicode, it takes a little...
View ArticleRPG Open Access
Aaron Bartell wrote about the new RPG Open Access (RPGOA) feature available for IBM i. The biggest problem with RPGOA is the cost … it’s not included in the base OS or RPG compiler. The cost is $500 –...
View ArticleOpensource RPG shipped with IBM i – now’s our chance!
There are a good handful of IBM’ers that take the time to be friends with me despite my sometimes harsh criticisms of their products Such is the case as of late while I was attending an IBM ISV...
View ArticleWhy I Dislike Code Generators
Those of you who follow the midrange.com lists probably are aware that I'm not a big fan of application code generators. This includes (but is not limited to) ... * Case Tools (AS/SET, Synon, etc) *...
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