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APIs by Example: A Validation List Entry's Life Cycle in CL Commands

This week, I continue the coverage of validation lists and validation list entries, which I began in the June 11 issue of this newsletter. In that article, I discussed the basics of validation lists and the anatomy of validation list entries, and I a...

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Sending Messages from RPG to a Syslog Server

I was sitting here struggling to find a new and exciting topic for this week's newsletter when I received an email from a colleague who wanted to write log entries from RPG to a Syslog server. He said it was hard to find information and wanted to kno...

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An Improved DB2 Command for QShell

I really like the db2 command available in QShell. It's a simple shell command that runs an SQL statement it receives as a parameter. It will even return result sets from SQL SELECT or CALL statements. Not only is this tool useful from QShell, but it...

Help Your Peers�and Get Published!

Our new Reader to Reader feature lets you share your IBM i code, comments, discoveries, and solutions to problems. Email your contributions of 500-1400 words to editors@systeminetwork.com. Please include your full name and email address. We edit subm...