RPGPGM.COM 6th birthday

I know this is going to sound glib, but RPGPGM.COM’s anniversary always creeps up and surprises me. I cannot believe that I have been writing this blog about all my favorite IBM i things for six years.

In past twelve months I wrote the 500th post for this blog. I still worry about running out of ideas, but I have fortunate to have lots of new material as IBM keeps adding new things to IBM i, via the twice yearly Technology Refreshes and a couple of new releases.

Each anniversary I pick what I think have been five of the most interesting things I have written about in the past twelve months. My picks from the last year are:

• Using Built–in global variables
• Getting data from XML file directly into data structure array
• Using Environmental Variables
• SQL NOW and playing with timestamps
• Getting the contents of a spool file using SQL

I want to thank all of you, the readers of this blog. Without you there would be no point for me to write this blog.

A special thank you goes to those who have sent me feedback and encouragement via email, messages, tweets, etc. It has been inspiring, and you deserve a special thanks for doing so.

Without the generosity of the folks at RZKH giving me space on their IBM i partitions I would not be able to research, play with, and create the example code I share in the blog posts. So a big vielen Dank to all of them.

I wonder what interesting things will happen in the next year?