IBM continues to add to the System i date and time support from release to release. This support involves different system components and facilities including Work Management, CL commands, IBM Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS, as well as system APIs. Regarding the latter, release 5.3 brought quite a few new date and time APIs, some […]
In previous articles, I covered the time zone support introduced in V5R3 and the APIs available to exploit this feature (links to these past articles are at the end of this article). However, the native i5/OS time zone support has not been fully implemented yet. Currently the job time zone attribute is merely copied from […]
This APIs by Example delivers the final installment of the User Application Information APIs article series. Here, I show you how user application information can be put to practical use. This article also ties a thread back to another previously published article demonstrating recent enhancements to API date and time zone support. Links to all […]
Today’s issue of APIs by Example provides three User Time Zone Information commands that let you easily maintain time zone information for any user profile: The Add, Change, and Remove User Time Zone Information commands — ADDUSRTMZ, CRTUSRTMZ, and RMVUSRTMZ, respectively. More important, these commands also enable an upcoming demonstration of how user application information […]
Have you ever wondered where the system stores information about a command’s previous assistance level, or Query/400’s last-used query and file libraries, or PDM’s default options? Have you ever needed to store your own settings on a per-user basis in one of your applications? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, please […]
For the first time, the APIs by Example column focuses on APIs tied to V5R3. And time is exactly the topic of this week’s article, or to be more precise, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). You can use UTC time recording to make timestamps time zone independent. Today, I show you some examples of how to […]
Articles on Apis 