Is the IBM i system worth it? This morning, I had a common question emailed in by a new subscriber: ​ I have been interested in IBM I for some time now (And Z/os). I even went so far as to buy a Power7+ 2u system for my home lab… only to find out the

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WORK IN PROGRESS – Come back later to see if this blog has been updated with some real time findings. It will be. But maybe take a bit of time. I’m just busy in the real world doing real stuff and and this install is kind of tricky stuff… I can tell you 😉 Using

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Ever wanted to find your IBM i OS Version using SQL? Following on from this blog about how to find the OS version from an RPG Program, a nice chap called Tomas Petris left a comment showing a slick way of pulling the IBM i Version with one SQL statement: The SQL statement is simple

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