“BOB” for IBM i: Demonstration by Edmund Reinhardt

At Seiden Group’s September 13, 2024, Code for i Fridays meeting, IBM’s Edmund Reinhardt presented a one-hour tutorial on the Better Object Builder (BOB).

This comprehensive demo was given by request. A regular attendee had asked for a complete demonstration, start to finish, of how to use BOB to compile source in VS Code; prepare a make file from scratch; and to use Source Orbit. These tools can help developers who wish to use Git with stream files instead of traditional QSYS-based source members.

The detailed tutorial is below. (For a beginner’s look at BOB, we recommend this demo by Liam Allan.)

Presenter Edmund Reinhardt serves as Architect for IBM i Application Development at IBM Canada Ltd.

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