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Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software?
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Published: 07 May 2015
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Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software? Published by: clbirk on 07 May 2015 view comments(7)

Next week (first part of week) I am putting on a training session on free and inexpensive software/tools on the ibm i. I wanted to ask the forum here for any of their "free and inexpensive" tools on the i that they use, as if it is not already on my presentation list, I would like to add.

chris

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Posted by: starbuck5250
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Comment on: Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software?
Posted: 8 years 7 months 20 hours 33 minutes ago
  • CGIDEV2
  • Scott Klement's IFSTOOL
  • Scott Klement's HSSFPOI
  • Scott Klement's FTPAPI
  • tn5250 terminal emulator
  • iSphere RDi plugin
  • RPGUnit RDi plugin
  • iSeries Python
Posted by: bobcozzi
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Chicagoland
www.cozTools.com/qryfile
Comment on: Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software?
Posted: 8 years 7 months 18 hours 14 minutes ago
Edited: Wed, 13 May, 2015 at 11:56:48 (3129 days ago)

Free

Inexpensive:

 

Posted by: Viking
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Comment on: Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software?
Posted: 8 years 7 months 17 hours 26 minutes ago

Free (for one user):  Linoma Surveyor/400.

Really like this tool and use it all the time.  Graphical interface on your PC to work with the IFS, work with files (like a more powerful DBU), transfer files up and down, run SQL, etc.

Free:  CNX Valence community edition

Toolkit to create applications with GUI front-ends to RPG programs.  After using the community edition, we bought the enterprise edition and use it to create all our GUI applications that run in browser, on mobile, etc.

Posted by: DaleB
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Posted: 8 years 6 months 30 days 22 hours 3 minutes ago

Free: http://www.easy400.net/

Posted by: starbuck5250
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Posted: 8 years 6 months 19 days 20 hours 9 minutes ago

I'm very interested to hear how this went.  The midrange market is weird.  Many people decry the high cost of vendor packages, but won't use any free source either.  Talk about a no win scenario...

Posted by: clbirk
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Posted: 8 years 6 months 16 days 21 hours 23 minutes ago

It went well. I used what you all had plus several things I had researched, etc. and a few I demo'ed, etc. Many of the websites that in theory have such are no longer active or have not been updated in 10 years (so might as well be not active).

 

chris

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Chicagoland
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Comment on: Free or Inexpensive IBM i Software?
Posted: 8 years 6 months 16 days 17 hours 3 minutes ago

Can you list your list of things for us?