Tips

Tips

iSeries upgrades and modernization

• Putting data from IBM i on Amazon S3 using i2S3

  Kisco Systems i2S3 allows transfer of data from the AS/400 to Amazon S3 storage in the cloud. With familiar CL commands, the product is easy to use, and can fill storage needs. The danger is the security of S3 cloud storage, with no guarantee from ...  Continue Reading

• Implementing a browser interface in COBOL: Creating your graphic Web page

  Learn how to use the CGI API, Write Standard Output (QtmhWrStout) to make a visual browser interface in segments, and use the COBOL STRING command to develop the segments. Then see how the Out-Data field is filled in, and how a PERFORM of the ...  Continue Reading

• Implementing a browser interface in COBOL: Getting started

  Learn how to get started on developing a Web interface from the AS/400 in COBOL starting with a logon page. Includes code samples for CGI APIs and library and DDS instructions.  Continue Reading

• Application modernization in the i world

  Modernizing one of the most efficient interfaces ever designed may be a bit tricky. On the AS/400, application modernization means making the best use out of your existing application programs and especially your application programmers. Joe Pluta ...  Continue Reading

• Web skills crucial to iSeries programmer professional development

  As System i programming increasingly moves to Web applications, iSeries programmers and administrators need to learn Web languages, such as HTML, Javascript and SQL. Contributor Andrew Borts discusses valuable skills for working in an Internet ...  Continue Reading

• System i no longer the stepchild of IBM's world

  Learn about PHP, VoIP and server consolidation with iSeries in this tip from System i programming expert Andrew Borts as he explains how iSeries is the gift that keeps on giving.  Continue Reading

• Lazy coder: What does PHP on the i5 mean?

  PHP, MySQL and other Web-based System i developer tools have made headlines in recent months. But what are they, and what do they do? ISeries programming expert Andrew Borts gives the rundown on these tools that are changing how System i is used.  Continue Reading

• Watch those iSeries system values

  Security expert Rich Loeber recently installed a new i5 System i server in his office. Rich explains that this is always an exciting time and he normally rushes to get the system set up so he can move operations onto the new hardware as soon as ...  Continue Reading

• WebSphere Application Server: Step by Step -- Chapter 2

  As a registered member of Search400.com, you're entitled to a complimentary copy of Chapter 2 of "WebSphere Application Server: Step by Step" written by Rama Turaga, Owen Cline, and Peter Van Sickel and published by MC Press. This chapter, "...  Continue Reading

• Developing Web Services for Web Applications: Chapter 1

  As a registered member of Search400.com, you're entitled to a complimentary copy of Chapter 1 of "Developing Web Services for Web Applications", written by Colette Burrus and Stephanie Parkin and published by MC Press. This chapter, "Creating your...  Continue Reading

• Debugging a Web page

  Programming expert Andrew Borts goes into detail about the debugging of the Web page and the internal elements of the Web page -- the JavaScript.  Continue Reading

• Testing iSeries Web applications

  Testing the Web sites you create involves many arts we use on an iSeries, however, people don't realize they can perform the same sort of detailed "what's happening behind the curtains" checks we don't associate with these mysterious Web pages.  Continue Reading

• Simplify API-generated lists processing with a generic list processing procedure -- part 2

  In a number of recent installments, we discussed the open-list APIs. When compared to the "regular" list APIs, we saw -- among other things -- that the open-list APIs do not require nearly as much "overhead" programming. Some of the "regular" list...  Continue Reading

• Automate WebSphere configuration backups on the iSeries (i5)

  The backupConfig command is delivered inside of the WebSphere product on the iSeries that allows the WebSphere configuration to be backed up and used to restore your WebSphere applications if your WebSphere environment becomes corrupt or damaged. ...  Continue Reading

• Simplify API-generated lists processing with a generic list processing procedure -- part I

  In the last few installments, Ron Turull has discussed the open-list APIs. If you followed along in the sample code provided with those articles, you may have noticed that compared to the "regular" list APIs, the open-list APIs do not require ...  Continue Reading