http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/rpg?view=blogposts Latest Blog Posts in RPG Café en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:18:06 GMT Clearspace 1.10.7 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T19:18:06Z en http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/11/20/setting-the-date-field-in-remote-systems-lpex-editor I get this question a lot: "can I set the set the Date field for a line or selection of lines in the Remote Systems LPEX Editor". The good news is that it's possible. The not so bad news is that you have to setup some simple preferences to make this rse tips lpex rdi Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:12:54 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/11/20/setting-the-date-field-in-remote-systems-lpex-editor 2009-11-20T20:12:54Z 3 days, 23 hours ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/setting-the-date-field-in-remote-systems-lpex-editor http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1285 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/11/10/rdi-webcast-series Over the past 2 months I've been doing a monthly webcast series with Sirius Computer Solutions on Rational Developer for i (RDi) . The format is generall 40 min deep dive on a specific topic, 10 min preview of the next month's topic, and 10 mins for rdi rse webcast debug sirius Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06:09 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/11/10/rdi-webcast-series 2009-11-10T17:06:09Z 2 weeks, 2 hours ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-webcast-series http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1281 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/09/18/rpgs-move-fields-logic-and-its-cousin-evalcorr One of the cool features of RPG is the "move fields" logic where data is moved from input buffers to program fields and from program fields to output buffers. Most RPG programmers don't think of this as cool - it is so fundamental to RPG that RPG rpg Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:14:31 GMT barbara_morris http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/09/18/rpgs-move-fields-logic-and-its-cousin-evalcorr 2009-09-18T19:14:31Z 2 months, 6 days ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/comment/rpgs-move-fields-logic-and-its-cousin-evalcorr http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1260 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/07/31/from-enddo-to-likefile-my-20th-rpg-anniversary Today is the 20th anniversary of my arrival at IBM and also my arrival in the AS/400 RPG Compiler Development department. The day I arrived, almost everyone was on vacation - there were only 3 other people working. It was near the end of development rpg Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:17:47 GMT barbara_morris http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/07/31/from-enddo-to-likefile-my-20th-rpg-anniversary 2009-07-31T15:17:47Z 3 months, 3 weeks ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/comment/from-enddo-to-likefile-my-20th-rpg-anniversary http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1229 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/07/28/rdi-75-interim-fix-001-for-7503-is-now-available Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:38:56 GMT eric.simpson http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/07/28/rdi-75-interim-fix-001-for-7503-is-now-available 2009-07-28T15:38:56Z 3 months, 4 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-75-interim-fix-001-for-7503-is-now-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1228 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/07/17/everyone-should-be-coding-the-ccsidchar-keyword The problem rpg ccsid Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:27:31 GMT barbara_morris http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/07/17/everyone-should-be-coding-the-ccsidchar-keyword 2009-07-17T18:27:31Z 4 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/comment/everyone-should-be-coding-the-ccsidchar-keyword http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1223 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/07/06/rdi-75-fixpack-3-7503-is-now-available install rdi rtci Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:49:33 GMT eric.simpson http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/07/06/rdi-75-fixpack-3-7503-is-now-available 2009-07-07T01:49:33Z 4 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-75-fixpack-3-7503-is-now-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1221 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/06/15/sql-tools-and-rdi We get a lot of questions about SQL tools and Rational Developer for i (RDi) . While we didn't ship the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (SQL tooling) in RDi 7.1 or 7.5, they can be added in after the fact. This is one of the great advantages of an rdi sql eclipse rse dtp Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:57:59 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/06/15/sql-tools-and-rdi 2009-06-15T12:57:59Z 5 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/sql-tools-and-rdi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1213 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/05/13/rdi-webcast-today I'm presenting on RDi today as part of SystemiNetwork's free IBM i Development Essentials Virtual Conference today. I'll be presenting "RPG and COBOL Development in Less Time With Better Quality Using Rational Developer for i " at 4PM EST. webcast rdi systeminetwork Wed, 13 May 2009 10:11:32 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/05/13/rdi-webcast-today 2009-05-13T10:11:32Z 6 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-webcast-today http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1198 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/04/17/notes-from-rpg-38-db2-summit-in-orlando Orlando Summit is almost over. Except for the (not unexpected) lower attendance, it has been an excellent Summit. The Summit attendees are always very motivated to learn; almost all of them attend a session in every available time slot. Over 80% of rpg summit rtci Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:45:30 GMT barbara_morris http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/04/17/notes-from-rpg-38-db2-summit-in-orlando 2009-04-17T17:45:30Z 7 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/comment/notes-from-rpg-38-db2-summit-in-orlando http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1185 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/03/21/what-is-web-20 If you are in the Toronto area, the Toronto User Group TEC 2009 conference starts next week Tue (Mar 24-26) web2.0 ibm_i twitter blogs ajax wikis social_networking mashups rss atom Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:01:23 GMT batthis http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/2009/03/21/what-is-web-20 2009-03-22T00:01:23Z 8 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/comment/what-is-web-20 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1175 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/03/09/business-value-of-rdi javajoe2000 asked a good question on the RPG discussion form: Why RDi 7.5? . I've written up a document with my opinions on why I think IBM i development shops should switch from SEU / PDM to RDi here: Why RDi 7.5 rdi rse productivity Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:51:44 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/03/09/business-value-of-rdi 2009-03-09T17:51:44Z 8 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/business-value-of-rdi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1172 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/03/09/updated-rse-pinup System i Developer (a.k.a Susan, Jon, Paul, and Skip) have updated their RSE Pin-up with 10 new shortcuts and new tips on customizing the RPG editor. These 10 new shortcuts now bring the total to 46; including what I would consider to be the core, Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:54:08 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/03/09/updated-rse-pinup 2009-03-09T09:54:08Z 8 months, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/updated-rse-pinup http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1171 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/11/the-joy-of-package-groups The RDi install is fairly straight-forward. But one question that users have wondered about is the one on using an existing package group or creating a new one. rdi install Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:21:51 GMT eric.simpson http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/11/the-joy-of-package-groups 2009-02-11T21:21:51Z 9 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/the-joy-of-package-groups http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1150 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/10/i-finally-did-it I don't know how many times a day I have to hit Ctrl+z to undo Word or PowerPoint's "auto correction" of my i to an I (as in Rational Developer for I, Rational Team Concert for I, or IBM I). So I finally bit the bullet and removed those auto-correction Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:05:36 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/10/i-finally-did-it 2009-02-10T17:05:36Z 9 months, 2 weeks ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/i-finally-did-it http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1155 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/04/rdi-75-fixpack-2-7502-is-now-available Fix Pack 2 for RDi v7.5 is now available. rdi Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:47:24 GMT eric.simpson http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/02/04/rdi-75-fixpack-2-7502-is-now-available 2009-02-04T14:47:24Z 9 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-75-fixpack-2-7502-is-now-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1147 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2009/02/03/rtci-annotations Have you seen or maintain code where developers added their names to identify the sections of code they changed and explanations of why those changes were made? With RTCi source control, you do not need to! As you make changes and deliver them to the rtci annotation Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:42:57 GMT kmun http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2009/02/03/rtci-annotations 2009-02-03T20:42:57Z 9 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/rtci-annotations http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1149 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2009/02/02/dealing-with-changing-tasks From time to time we are all working on one task, and then another one comes in that is higher priority. How can we handle this situation, such that our current work doesn't affect the new task at hand? At the change set level is the ability to suspend rtci changesets Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:40:36 GMT kjdoyle http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2009/02/02/dealing-with-changing-tasks 2009-02-02T22:40:36Z 12 months, 4 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/dealing-with-changing-tasks http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1098 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/01/30/rdi-elevator-pitch I'm getting ready for an RDi customer demo for Monday and my co-presenter asked what are the main points I normally cover for RDi. Since I typed up the email, I figured I'd post it here as well. So here is my RDi elevator pitch (provided it's the CN rdi rse productivity enterprise_modernization Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:55:13 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2009/01/30/rdi-elevator-pitch 2009-01-30T18:55:13Z 9 months, 4 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-elevator-pitch http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1144 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/12/16/rtci-available-on-jazznet-for-download IBM Rational Team Concert is now available for 60 day trial on jazz.net. You will need to create an account on jazz.net (it's free) and logon to be able to download RTCi. rtci Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:30:27 GMT Nazmin http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/12/16/rtci-available-on-jazznet-for-download 2008-12-16T17:30:27Z 11 months, 1 week ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/rtci-available-on-jazznet-for-download http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1127 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2008/12/09/rdi-75-fixpack-1-7501-is-now-available Fix Pack 1 for RDi v7.5 is now available. rdi rtci Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:09:03 GMT eric.simpson http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2008/12/09/rdi-75-fixpack-1-7501-is-now-available 2008-12-09T18:09:03Z 11 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/rdi-75-fixpack-1-7501-is-now-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1118 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2008/11/28/faster-connecting-default-user-ids With RDi V7.5 come some changes to the default user ID for connection types. In previous releases when you would connect to IBM i, Linux, etc. the user ID field would be empty. Now the user ID field is pre-filled with your Windows login ID. rdi Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:49:53 GMT kjdoyle http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/2008/11/28/faster-connecting-default-user-ids 2008-11-28T14:49:53Z 1 year, 13 hours ago 3 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/comment/faster-connecting-default-user-ids http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rdi-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1096 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/27/dude-wheres-my-code If you have never used a source code management and versioning system like ClearCase or Subversion before, perhaps you feel a tangible comfort in being able to start SEU on a source member to see what's there. Perhaps you find the thought of storing all Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:26:09 GMT babineau http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/27/dude-wheres-my-code 2008-11-28T01:26:09Z 12 months, 1 day ago 5 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/dude-wheres-my-code http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1105 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/26/tips-for-a-cleaner-pending-changes-view When I first started using the Pending Changes view I was noticing that components I didn't have loaded and components that didn't have any changes were shown and cluttering up the view. There are two settings from the drop down menu of the view: Show rtci Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:46:32 GMT kjdoyle http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/26/tips-for-a-cleaner-pending-changes-view 2008-11-26T21:46:32Z 12 months, 4 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/tips-for-a-cleaner-pending-changes-view http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1097 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/26/welcome-to-the-rtci-blog Welcome to the RTCi Team Blog! rtci Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:29:36 GMT kmun http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/2008/11/26/welcome-to-the-rtci-blog 2008-11-26T21:29:36Z 12 months, 2 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/comment/welcome-to-the-rtci-blog http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rtci-team-blog/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1101