IBM-provided Repositories ODBC Linux Driver Repositories
Today, we’re pushing out something that I’ve been wanting for a long time. We now have RPM and DEB repositories for Linux available directly from IBM for the...
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IBM i Open Source Updates January 2022
Happy new year! I know it’s late February now, but it’s still the first post of
2022 here, so let’s see what January had to offer. 
IBM i Open Source Updates December 2021
Just because the last couple months were quiet doesn’t mean that nothing’s going on. Case in point, the last month of 2021 saw a ton of updates, though many ...
IBM i Open Source Updates November 2021
November brings some nice goodies for IBM i 7.3+ users and some security fixes.
IBM i Open Source Updates October 2021
Another relatively quiet month of IBM i open source updates.
IBM i Open Source Updates September 2021
September was a pretty quiet month, but still some good stuff.
IBM i Open Source Updates August 2021
August is up, let’s check it out.
IBM i Open Source Updates July 2021
Back with another overdue update, this time for July. Big news this month, which had been hinted at for a while. Did you figure it out ahead of time? New Pac...
IBM i Open Source Updates June 2021
Hey, it’s been a while! I got way behind on pushing out update blogs, so I’ll be pushing out updates to catch up on the 2021 and try to be more consistent fo...
IBM-provided Repositories and YUM Updates
Today, we’re pushing out an update to YUM which will automatically pull in a new ibmi-repos package. The ibmi-repos package will provide two “new” repositori...
IBM i Open Source Updates May 2021
May updates at the same time as April updates? Madness, I say!
IBM i Open Source Updates April 2021
Well, I’m a month late, but let’s not dawdle any further – on to the updates!
IBM i Open Source Updates March 2021
Hold on to your hats, because this might be the biggest monthly update yet!
IBM i Open Source Updates February 2021
New year, new rpm updates! In this post, we’ll go over updates for both January and February.
IBM i Open Source Updates December 2020
Being the holiday and end of year season here in Rochester, things are wrapping up for the year so I figured I’d put out my December update now instead of ne...
getjobid, cl, and liblist — Oh, My!
With the latest update to BASH, there are 3 new IBM i-specific BASH builtin functions: liblist, cl, and getjobid. These builtins function nearly identically ...
IBM i Open Source Updates October & November 2020
October was a pretty slow month with mostly low-level improvements so I figured I’d combine them with the November updates. November turned out to be a prett...
IBM i Open Source Updates August & September 2020
While August had some big hitters, September was very quiet so I decided to only do one update.
IBM i Open Source Updates July 2020
Been a while so let’s get right to it.
IBM i Open Source Updates June 2020
Well, it’s that time of the month again. Time to talk about all the OSS updates that’s fit to print!
IBM i Open Source Updates May 2020
Well, I mentioned before that the May update was gonna be big and boy is it a doozy!
IBM i Open Source Updates Apr 2020
April seemed very busy to me, but it ended up being rather mild in what we actually delivered. I suspect that means that my May update will be a rather large...
IBM i Open Source Updates Mar 2020
Alright folks, strap in because March was a busy month!
IBM i Open Source Updates Feb 2020
Wow, hasn’t even been a week! In this blog entry, I’m going to go over what my team delivered in February.
IBM i Open Source Updates Jan 2020
Well, I hadn’t planned to take this long to get out another blog, but the world of OSS moves fast and things have been very busy around here. I’m planning on...
IBM i Open Source Updates Dec 2019
It’s a new year and so I’m finally getting around to doing something that I’ve wanted to do for a while now: write a blog series about various updates about ...
Bash Command Oddities
Sometimes when using bash, you can run in to an oddity where it keeps running the “wrong” command. Let’s go through a scenario:
Using System Naming in Python ibm_db
Like last-week’s post about commitment control in Python ibm_db, you may run in to this unexpected error as well:
Using Python ibm_db with Un-journaled Tables
When using the Python ibm_db package to interact with the Db2 for i database, you may run in to this error:
Calling QSH utilities from PASE
QSH provides a wonderful utility called db2 which allows you to run SQL queries from within the QSH shell, but what if you’re in a QP2TERM shell or using SSH...
Fetching Python Database Cursors by Column Name
Today I got asked if you can index in to rows returned by ibm_db_dbi by column name. While this doesn’t come out of the box1, it can be done pretty easily.
Mucking with the Runtime Library Search Path on PASE
In my last blog I showed how the LIBPATH gets used and also how the runtime search path in the binary gets used. LIBPATH is obviously set as an environment v...
LIBPATH… How Does It Work?
So in the last entry, I described the differences between PATH and LIBPATH, but I didn’t really explain how LIBPATH is actually used. I’m going to rectify th...
PATH vs LIBPATH
I see this kind of tip suggested a lot when dealing with PASE issues:
First Post
First post here. More to come later. Happy X-mas to you all!