Open source saves the day once again.
When one of our open source support clients discovered that Tomcat plugin for Apache was not supported on their test IBM i 7.5 system, they needed a solution. They relied on Tomcat to serve their Java web applications.
While installing packages from IBM’s original open source repository, ibm, users may encounter errors, including:
Code for IBM i has been moving quickly. As the popularity of this Visual Studio Code extension has grown, updates and enhancements have arrived regularly.
If you encounter a bug or issue, installing the latest update may resolve it. Updating Code for i requires only a restart of VS Code. Here are some details to clarify how to restart as well as how to roll back the update, if desired.
I had to chuckle when someone at a recent conference seemed surprised that PHP was still a vital force in web and API development. He hadn’t heard much about PHP lately at conferences.
My explanation: “It’s reliable and the major problems have been solved.”
I continued: “There’s a significant PHP update each year, plus monthly fixes. It’s evolving steadily, with attention to backward compatibility, all changes discussed in the open, easy to manage, no surprises.”
In this post we’ll take a closer look at how IBM i developers can use the QSHCURL command to easily reach out from CL or RPG and talk to internet-based services and APIs, then consume the resulting data, without a lot of extra effort.
First we’ll provide a short curl intro, and then we’ll look at an example of how to use the PASE-based curl command with an RPG program.
ODBC connections between Linux and IBM i should be encrypted to keep their Db2 data safe in transit.
To encrypt ODBC data, IBM recommends the industry-standard TLS encryption protocol (the successor to SSL).
The Yum install command installs open source packages. It also installs any sub-packages upon which the desired package relies.
Yum remove does the reverse. It will remove a requested package.
What some users don’t know: Yum remove also removes any packages that depend on the package you removed. This is true whether running Yum manually or via the ACS open source package manager.
IBM i users have a new way to request enhancements from IBM. The Request for Enhancement (RFE) site has been replaced by the IBM Power Ideas Portal.
I immediately noticed an advantage of the new portal—we can now share links without requiring the recipient to log in! The new site seems faster, too.
HTTP Server for i (Powered by Apache) is the IBM i integrated web server. Although this unique implementation of Apache is well documented by IBM, that documentation can be hard to find. Internet searches often return outdated or irrelevant links.
Since IBM announced Yum support for installing the IBM i Db2 ODBC driver, as documented in our recent tutorial, users can update their driver more easily.
To help users determine what’s changed, IBM maintains a list of fixes and enhancements for each IBM i ODBC driver release.