IBM 'i' development blog
Archive for October, 2009
Vista Business Connected to IBM ‘i’ NetServer
Oct 29th
After many months of trying to connect to the Netservers and giving up in frustration I have finally managed to work out what to do. For those others who have the same issues here is a quick guide on how I achieved it! The Netshares were perfectly accessible from XP systems and we could connect
JobQGenie provides customer with valuable intel during planned role swap.
Oct 27th
JobQGenie came up with a new role the other day. We have a customer who does regular role swaps of their HA product that uses JobQGenie to ensure they can swap in a reasonable time. Due to the nature of their application, even with a planned role swap they can end up with thousands of
FTP Manager V6.1 available for download
Oct 26th
Both the product and an updated manual are now available for download from the members section of the website. The modernization of the products interfaces using the Looksoftware products has started but will not be available until later in the year. We feel it is necessary to get the product out into the community prior
A couple of shots of the new FTP Client
Oct 25th
We have finished the code updates and changes to the FTP Manager product. The biggest changes have been in the FTP Client interface which to be honest was pretty clunky originally. The Security Manager part of the product hasn’t changed that much, but we have added a few changes which should make the product more
Bringing back the old!
Oct 17th
Our recent partnership with Looksoftware has brought a new view on some of our old products. We have been looking for an application that could demonstrate the power of the looksoftware products. Our initial thoughts were to use the in-house packaging product we use to generate our products as IBM Licensed Program Products. The product
Why do people do this!
Oct 9th
There is always some A HOLE who thinks its clever to download something and not say who they really are! We provide the software and the download for free, the least you can do is be truthful about who you are… The following inormation has been entered into the associate DB. Name : – edward
First trial with Look Software sucessful!
Oct 9th
We have recently teamed up with LookSoftware to use their products for Application Modernization, something which I am sure is going to be a key activity for the IBM ‘i’ community in the coming months/years. One area which we are really keen to take a look at (no pun intended) is Web services using IBM
Strange Problem with QjoRetrieveJournalEntries API
Oct 9th
We have been doing some additional testing on one of our products which uses the QjoRetrieveJournalEntries API and noticed a strange problem. When we ran the API against a journal that returned 100,000′s of entries we started to receive a pointer error when setting a value in a UserSpace object. After some investigation we determined
PTF’s now available for JQG Version 5.1
Oct 7th
A new set of PTF’s are now available for JobQGenie Version 5.1. The new PTFs add significant improvements to the product and its ease of use. Although some of the fixes are related to errors found in the base product many of them are enhancements built as a result of customer requests. The PTF’s are

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