Alan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Find the Technology Refresh...
I recently needed to know if a client’s IBM i 7.1 system had Technology Refresh 4 (TR4) installed. If it did, I could use the relatively new INSERT with remote SUBSELECT technique, which allows a...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Zendcon 2014 promo video...
About Zendcon: Premier PHP conference Oct. 27-30, 2014, Santa Clara, California Dedicated IBM i track Special day of IBM i workshop tutorials (Oct. 27; choose “conference/tutorials” when you...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Save your fingers when...
In Batch PHP I showed how to call PHP from a command line. For example, with Zend Server 6 or 7 on IBM i, one would launch a PASE command line using the command CALL QP2TERM, or launch QShell using...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Zend Framework 2...
Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) provides optimization techniques that are often overlooked by published performance tests. One excellent source for such techniques is a presentation by Gary Hockin. I was...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Free PHP still exists on IBM i
I’ve been hearing from people confused about Zend Server editions on IBM i. Yes, Community Edition was removed with Zend Server 7/8, but Zend replaced that with the no-charge “Basic” edition. The...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Learn to combine RPG+PHP at...
I’ve recorded a special message about my upcoming presentations at the Toronto Users Group for Power Systems evening meeting on January 21, 2015: In the video, I discuss the two sessions I’ll be...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › January newsletter
I’ve relaunched my PHP and IBM i newsletter. Here is the January 2015 edition, out today. To subscribe and receive this free newsletter each month, go here: alanseiden.com/tips. Comments welcome. Happy...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Free webinars sponsored by...
Starting January 27, 2015, I’ll be giving three free Tuesday webinars: January 27: Strategic Modernization with PHP February 17: Bring RPG/COBOL business logic to the web with the PHP Toolkit March 10:...
View ArticleAlan Seiden Consulting: PHP and IBM i Expertise › Overcome 8-character user...
By default, user profiles longer than eight (8) characters cannot connect to IBM i via Secure Shell (SSH). This limitation affects tools such as Zend Studio, which will show a message similar to...
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