Moving from SEU/PDM to Rational Developer for i? This month we presented at the annual IBM Innovate Conference in Orlando several topics on the various IBM Rational tools. Rational Developer for i (RDi) is the IDE of choice for editing, verifying, analyzing, and managing RPG, COBOL, and C/C++ on the IBM i (i.e the AS/400). … Read more
This year at the IBM Innovate conference we presented several topics. One of which was on HATS web services and RDBMS integration points with the product. In the presentation we cover details on creating a web service from a System i 5250 application using nothing but the HATS macro and web service wizards. [slideshare id=22924090&doc=makinghatsastrategicinvestment-pwr1212-130613094949-phpapp02]As … Read more
Rational Team Concert (RTC) is gaining in popularity these days, and we are certainly seeing more and more of it in our business. RTC provides several benefits and features that span development silos. Traditionally, an IT shop would have a different SCM and build system for distributed systems, more for .NET, and yet something completely … Read more
The traditional tool for development of applications on the IBM i is the SEU green screen interface. Many developers still use this for editing source members, and shrug the thought of moving to a rich IDE. What they may not know is that SEU/PDM have been “stabilized”, which is an IBM euphemism that means “We ain’t doing … Read more
Last month we presented three sessions at the IBM Innovate Conference in Orlando. This presentation below was focused on solutions for the IBM POWER platform (AIX, Linux, and IBM i). This is geared towards those who are new to the concept of modernizing 5250 and VT100 terminal applications and shows what is available using Rational … Read more
Some have contacted me that they have been unable to find my presentation on the conference web site. I would have sworn I posted it (more than once), but the conference organizer website was considerably different than last year, and not necessarily better. That said, for those who would like to view all the ooey … Read more
WebSphere App Server on the i/OS does not come with a feature to automatically start and stop, and sometimes its best to use a CL command to stop it. I frequently see users doing an ENDSBS(WAS7), which wreaks havoc with the JVM. Please don’t just end the subsystem. When you do this, the JVM drops … Read more