Nov 3, 2020
Creating QR codes and emailing them in a pdf as an attachment from the IBM i QR codes are very much in the news at the moment. QR codes are basically 2D barcodes but with the ability to contain a greater amount of information that can be read much faster and more...
Oct 24, 2020
Here is some simple code that we use to do a mass replace of text strings in physical file source members. It does a case sensitive search and replaces the entire search string with the replacement sting and will always produce data shift if the search and replacement...
Aug 25, 2020
We needed to do a table update remotely over the internet from a very old version of OS/400 (V4R3) using SQL in an RPGLE program on a table which was on a remote machine running a much newer version (V7R1). The connection of the two machines is across the internet....
Aug 25, 2020
First we need to purchase the SSL certificate or certificates. In order to process the purchase we need to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). To do this start the HTTP admin server: STRTCPSVR SERVER(HTTP) HTTPSVR(ADMIN) Then goto port 2001 of the HTTP...
Jul 24, 2020
In this article we outline a way to implement PHPMailer to send emails from the IBM i. The emails can have attachments such as pdf’s and can be sent with SSL/TLS encryption. The PHPMailer software runs using PHP on the IBM i. It does not need a webserver to be...
