Hello all! My name is Jason Olson and I am one of the newest members of the CM First team. I’m happy to be with this fine group, and Mark Schroeder has asked if I would pen a series of articles on IBM i administration and system maintenance. I thought a good place to start

This article is the first in a series of articles that will provide a basic introduction to the function options for each type of 2E function.  The first function we will look at is the Execute External Function. Commit control Generation mode Copy back messages Send all error messages Reclaim resources Generate error routine Close

One of the challenges in any data system is how to share data with other systems. There are many times you need to create a data file that can be exported into other systems. This can be anything like from an ACH file that goes to the back, a Skip Trace file or any other

Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect It is common to define the Printer Device for an IBM i user on his User Profile. When the user runs a CA Plex client that starts a job on the IBM i we want to make sure that printer output from that job is sent to the

Many companies struggle with modernization efforts, like cloud, web and mobile, because their code doesn’t easily adapt to the new challenges.  It may be ‘brittle’ due to coding errors referred to as technical debt.  The coding language may simply not have the capabilities you need. Or your developers aren’t trained on the massive numbers of

John Rhodes, CTO, will be highlighting the CM First modernization story at several places in November.  First, he will be presenting “Technical Debt – the Secret Drain on Capacity Dollars and Performance,” on Tuesday AM, November 4th, at the Georgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta at CMG 2014.     The next week, November 9-12,