Tag Archives: AS/400

Dec
14
2005

iSeries Blunders Part III

There was this one time that I was at a client site doing some programming work. I noticed that one of the system operators was removing and then re-inserting a cartridge from the AS/400’s tape drive. He would walk back to the main console and type something. Shaking his head he would go through the [...]

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Aug
22
2005

iSeries Blunders Part II

Have you ever worked on two programs at the same time? You are coding this current requirement when a user comes up to you from behind and blurts out, “Can you fix this? We just need an additional column on the report. My boss needed it yesterday.” Sound familiar? Knowing that it won’t take you [...]

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Aug
20
2005

iSeries Blunders Part I

Since this is my first article, I decided to look back at my career. Starting out in 1996 with a small IT company, I was a fresh graduate and like other graduates, I had no idea what an AS/400 (which is what they called the iSeries back then) was. Naturally, I was pretty excited. When [...]

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