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IBM 'i' development blog
Mar 9th
I had always believed the TCP stack is pretty fault tolerant which would ensure data sent from one system would always arrive at the target intact. I appears that is a myth in certain circumstances?
I recently had a note from Larry Yougren (Journal Guru) asking me to take a look at a journal IQ More >
Mar 9th
I was asked to take a look at the following link http://systeminetwork.com/article/test-your-journal-iq and thought I would share it! Some interesting points which I didn’t even know!
Take the quiz and post your results as a comment..
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Feb 23rd
IT Jungle just posted the announcement of the latest release of RAP. This release brings RAP into the HA category in terms of functionality due to the addition of new replication features and tools.
This is the content published by ITJ
Shield Adds IFS Replication to HA Offering
Published: February 23, 2010
by Alex Woodie
i/OS shops using Shield Advanced More >
Feb 20th
One of the problems with the Zend Studio is the problems encountered when accessing the IBM ‘i’ using the FTP or mapped drive methods. I had a lot of problems getting the FTP server to connect the even more problems keeping the connection established while developing the code.
I decided to look at the SSH connectivity, More >
Feb 20th
IBM has changed how they ship the 5733SC1 LPP, for V6R1 it is included on the B29xx_02 CD and not shipped as on a separate CD. Another problem is the installation Menu Option 11 does not provide you with the option to install the product even though it is now included in the standard CD More >
Feb 12th
We are in the process of building our new i520 ready to take over the development role from the old 520. One of the problems we came across was the use of the virtual images we have been using for the daily saves, unfortunately the FTP transfers always set the CCSID to 00819 event though More >
Feb 10th
Last part of the C for ‘i’ project added the ability to add new records into the database. The following shows how to add the same functionality to the PHP project.
The code shows how to carry out the process using the i5Toolkit API’s, the use of the db2_ functions will be covered at a later More >
Feb 5th
The last post PHP for ‘i’ #4 showed how you could use the i5_ functions to display the details of a record in an additional page. We have also posted about how to use the db2_ functions to get a faster response as we found the i5_ functions were very slow (the i5_pconnect() functioned cleared More >
Feb 4th
I have ordered a new 520 system which we will use for our development and testing. I placed the order as usual through IBM in Canada and received a notification of how to track the shipment in due course. I checked the shipment details on the 1st February and to my shock it said it More >
Feb 3rd
We have moved all of our PHP installations to the new ZendServer installs and removed the old ZendCore product. The new ZendServer install no longer requires an additional PASE HTTP Server as Proxy for PHP requests but uses FastCGI technology to service those PHP requests. The page responses using this method are greatly improved More >
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