A concise technical look at the IBM System/38 Machine Interface (MI) and its successor TIMI: what they are, how program conversion works, and why creation data and observability matter for binary portability and OS migrations.
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ILE RPG binary search
How and why to use binary search in ILE RPG
Private authorities and why you (probably) don’t want them
Private authorities allowed IBM i administrators to finely tune object access for user profiles, but they come with significant management and performance costs. This article explores why minimizing their use is beneficial.
Why do I need to run RSTAUT?
Why do I need to run RSTAUT?
The *JOBSCD object type
The *JOBSCD object type
How big is my index?
Description of the different sizes of an index.
IBM i remote filesystems
Presentation of IBM i remote filesystems.
Filesystems
Presentation of IBM i filesystems