Its been a long few weeks since the last real techie post. We had a number of issues with the Secure Sockets program talking to our externally hosted website which took a lot of debugging […]
Category: IBMIOSS
Let’s ‘C’ a little more (about *SRVPGM management)
The program we created last time shows how to read through a message file looking for a particular text string, but we generally do not search and change system messages (we only have the snd_error_msg() […]
NGINX install
There is a recent post from Jesse Grozinski A-Tale-of-Two-Web-Servers which gives some information about the addition of NGINX to the IBM i suite of HTTP Servers. We feel that the post needed a little more detail for those […]
Installing git and getting our first Open Source Software
In the previous post I discussed the fact that we have two Open Source camps on the IBM i, I believe the easiest start into the community for many is going to be via the […]
Getting Started with Open Source using what you already know.
One of the problems many people have with Open Source on the IBM i is know just where to start. I think some of this can be contributed to the way we have started the […]
Working with OSSILE,Rdi,IProjects and git.
I was surprised on a recent Crowdcast from the OSSILE group to hear that in order to use git you had to migrate your source code to IFS based files? Having developed a lot of […]
Open Source and partitioning for Linux.
There are a number of ways to approach the use of Open Source within your IBM i / IT environment. The one we see discussed a lot on the IBMIOSS groups and various other mediums […]
Netbeans remote support working!
As promised, I have now managed to get the initial build of a C program on the IBM i using the remote build support provided by NetBeans. See my previous posting to see how I […]
Netbeans Remote Build support for IBM i Open Source Builds
I had recently put in a request to have GCC remote build added to the IDE (RDi or Orion if Orion ever gets compile capabilities) to allow developers to develop PASE based Open Source on […]
Automatically starting Orion
I wanted to automatically start Orion at system start up plus allow the start and end from a normal IBM i command line. My initial thoughts was to use a command and CLP which would […]