The POSIX API for multithreading – called pthreads – is the classic way, to run multiple procedures parallel at the same time and in the same process. Using it in ILE-RPG is quite easy, if you know how.
WeiterlesenWith the availability of IBM Rational Developer for i (RDi) version 9.8.0.1 most issues with the version 9.8 have been resolved, and many developers want to use the new version.
So after using version 9.8 and 9.8.0.1 since the BETA releases, I have compiled my favorite information, tips and tricks for it. This compilation is a very personal and loose collection – without claiming any completeness or that it will work „on your computer“. As always, your mileage might vary.
Yes – RDI 9.8 doesn’t use the IBM Installation Manager (IM) anymore. RDi 9.8 is using the typical Eclipse installation process called „P2“.
Simply spoken, on Windows you only have to decompress the ZIP file „IBM Rational Developer for i.zip“ to any location where you have write permissions and start RDi by double-clicking „RDi.exe“. On macOS you simply copy the „IBM Rational Developer for i.app“ bundle to a location of your choice and double-click the application. That’s it.
The nice thing – you can keep your RDI 9.6 installation in parallel and you can even have multiple copies of RDi 9.8 if necessary.
Not only the installation itself and the updates process are new – applying the license also works different than in 9.6. But I can only document the process using an activation kit, because I don’t have a license server available.
After lauching RDi 9.8 simply select the trial license – don’t use the „Manage Licenses“ dialog. Instead select „Install new software…“ from the „Help“ menu. Click on the „Add…“ button – give it a more or less meaningful name and select „Archive…“.
Here you should select the file „RDi_9.8_RPGCOBOLTools_AU_Lic_Act_Kit_P2.zip“ which is included in the file „RDi_Act_Kit_9.8_MP_ML.zip“ (which you have to unpack).
Select the permanent activation kit and install it. RDi has to restart to apply the license.
You only have to apply the 9.8 license once – any new installation of RDi 9.8 uses the same license on that machine.
I have used a RDi 9.6 workspace – used it in RDi 9.8 – used it again in RDi 9.6 – back and forth – and I never had any problem with that. Of course you cannot use the same workspace in RDi 9.8 and 9.6 at the same time.
So I never had any problems – but your mileage may vary – so there is no guarantee that at one point your workspace will get corrupted and will be unusable. So better make backups of your workspace regularly.
After the installation there should already be a preconfigured update site for RDi 9.8 updates – just select „Install new software…“ in the „Help“ menu. Then select the preconfigured RDi update site:
If there are any updates available – you can check the updates you want, click the „Next >“ button and follow the instructions..
If there is no preconfigured update site for RDi (whether it was deleted or anything) you can click on the „Add…“ or „Manage…“ button and create an update site. Give it a meaningful name, and enter the following URL in the „Location“ field:
When this update site is selected, the RDi 9.8 updates should be presented. Check the updates you want, click the „Next >“ button and follow the instructions.
Sometimes updates, features or plugins are not code signed – then just click „Select All“ and „Trust Selected“:
But always look through the list of classes and versions to be sure, that you don’t install any potentially harmful software.
Alternatively you can also download the fixpack from Fix Central and add the downloaded ZIP file to your update sources.
Select „Install new software…“ from the „Help“ menu. Click on the „Add…“ button – give it a more or less meaningful name and select „Archive…“. Select the downloaded ZIP file and add the repository. After this, the process is the same.
Today (2024-01-09) version 9.8.0.1 is officially available.
To install the following popular plugins simply follow the instructions how to an update site is configured in the previous paragraph.
In general when installing plugins from Sourceforge use „http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/…“ as the server part – „www.sourceforge.net“ will not work.
If you have problems connecting to your systems, this might be related to different encryption algorithms from RDi version 9.6 and version 9.8.
The best way solve this problem is to disconnect from all systems, and clear the passwords.
After that, don’t re-connect to the systems immediately.
Instead select „Preferences“ in the „Window“ menu, and search for „password“ – then select „Secure Storage“.
Here click „Clear Passwords“ again – and click „Change Password…“ while „Windows Integration (…)“ is selected. You can provide a password hint, but you don’t have to.
Apply and close the settings and connect to your systems. You have to enter your passwords again, and check „Save password“. Now it should work again.
Snippets is a feature, that some users relied on for their development. But RDi 9.8 doesn’t install Snippets and also the feature to distribute Snippets from a system was removed.
At least, it is able, to bring back Snippets by installing the Eclipse Web Developer Tools package. But – RDi is lagging behind the Eclipse IDE development, so you can’t simply install the Web Developer Tools from the Eclipse Marketplace.
So here what you have to do – once again select „Install new software…“ in the „Help“ menu and create a new update site by clicking the „Add…“ button. Give the new site a meaningful name and enter the following URL in the „Location“ field:
Use the search box to search for „Web Developer Tools“ and set a check mark in front of „Eclipse Web Developer Tools“. Follow the installation after clicking the „Next >“ button.
If you had the „Snippets“ view open, it should work after RDi has restarted. If you closed the non-working view, you can now open it by selecting „Show View“ from the „Window“ menu. Search for „Snippets“ and open the view again.
You can use RDi in an other language than the language of your installed OS. As an example I use Windows in German but I want to use RDi in English.
Simply open the file „RDi.ini“ in the installation directory of RDi, and add a line with „-nl“ and another line with the language you want to use – here I selected „en“ for English:
Save the file and start RDi – and the UI will be in the selected language, as far as this language is available. If some elements are not translated, they will show up in English – which make a funny mix.
RDi 9.8 is a major update and brings a completely new installation and update process – but this new process is much better in line with traditional Eclipse processes.
One problem still persists – the Eclipse version on which RDi is based lags several versions (or releases) behind the original Eclipse IDE. But at least, RDi has catched up a little, so it gets easier to use other Eclipse features.
Many Thanks to the team at Fortra for putting so much effeort into the RDi development – and very special thanks to Steve Ferrell for his support during the beta period.
A few days ago someone asked, if there is a way, to generate random numbers in a CL program or procedure.
WeiterlesenWhen timestamps are stored in a database table, they are often stored in local time. This is not bad at all, but if you have to compare or coordinate timestamps of different time zones, it quickly gets complicated due to different time offsets, different daylight saving time rules and so on. So it would be nice, to convert timestamps from local time to UTC and back. We will create a RPG procedure to do that, and make it available as a SQL user defined function (UDF).
WeiterlesenCreating XML documents from database data can be complicated sometimes. But the DB2 database inside IBM i has some powerful XML functions to create XML documents, elements, and attributes, and for the serialization of the XML data.
WeiterlesenConsuming web services on IBM i was never easier – but in fact, it’s nothing new, the DB2 SQL functions are available at least since Version 7.2.
With Version 7.4 TR5 and Version 7.3 TR11 IBM has released new HTTP functions, which now reside in QSYS2 and which are much faster than the HTTP functions in SYSTOOLS. So I updated this post using the new functions in QSYS2.
WeiterlesenDie neue Subway Bestell-Plattform dein-subway.de/clickandeat ist wirklich schön gestaltet und bietet vor allem die Möglichkeit, den Kunden seine Bestellung direkt Online bezahlen zu lassen.
Der Betreiber Smoothr bietet für knapp 200€ eine Lösung mit Raspberry Pi und eigenem Bon-Drucker, um die eingehenden Kunden-Bestellungen direkt im Restaurant auszudrucken. Mit spezieller Software kann man aber die HTML E-Mails von Smoothr auch direkt auf dem Kassenbon-Drucker auszudrucken.
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Nachdem viele Subway® Franchise-Owner gerade mit leeren Stores da stehen, ist Suborder von Pro Image (Christof Drescher) eine tolle Idee, um unseren treuen Kunden die Möglichkeit von Internet-Bestellungen zu geben.
Catalina macht es Entwicklern nicht einfach – und die Notarization von Apps auch nicht – aber FreePascal & Lazarus bekommt man mit dem Tool FPCUpdeluxe recht einfach installiert.
Ein paar Schritte – die vielleicht nicht gerade offensichtlich sind – sind aber notwendig.
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