Eradani Blog

Maybe Someone has Already Written the Code You Need!
A few weeks ago, a customer of ours asked if Eradani could provide them with a dashboard for tracking all the API calls that were

UPS Shipping Automation
with APIs and the IBM i
Because of the productivity benefits, business-to-business communication via APIs is growing at an exponential rate. The IBM i world is no exception as more and

High Performance APIs and IBM i
As more IBM i users begin integrating APIs into their application development strategy, we are hearing increasing concerns about API performance. IBM i users are

Warp Speed Modernization with JavaScript and APIs
“I feel like I have been working with hand tools and somebody just gave me a power saw and drill.” That’s how a customer described

IBM i Loosely Coupled APIs for Power, Performance, and Ease of Maintenance
It’s exciting to see the number of IBM i users who have discovered the power of extending their RPG and COBOL applications using APIs and

Use APIs to Quickly Create Exciting New Functions for the IBM i!
After my last blog post on using publicly available web services to quickly and easily add new functions to your RPG applications (https://www.eradani.com/2020/10/26/quickly-add-exciting-new-capabilities-to-your-rpg-applications-using-open-source/), I had

Quickly Add Exciting New Capabilities to Your RPG Applications Using Open Source
A customer of ours responded to one of my blog posts on APIs and said, “you are missing one of the great benefits of using

Web Services and Your IBM i―The Right Way (Faster, Stronger, & Securer)
Every time I talk to a customer, I learn about great new use cases for calling web services from IBM i applications or calling IBM

Supercharge Your Business with Application APIs
It’s time to get aggressive about leveraging APIs to build your business. In previous blogs, I’ve written about the power of open source for rapidly

Expand Application Functions and Build Your Business Using APIs
How would you like to add thousands of programmers to your staff at little or no cost? Would it help your organization if you could

Calling All Web Services
(From Your RPG Programs!)
A customer asked me recently to help them solve the problem of directly calling web service APIs from RPG. They told me that their warehouse

Stop Worrying About the IBM i Brain Drain
Is it possible to be working with IBM i and not even know it? You bet! Is that a good thing? Yes. I often talk

Eradani Connect Unlocks Open Source on the IBM i Without Locking You In
I’ve noticed several threads on LinkedIn and the IBM i message boards recently discussing the difficulty of bringing JSON data into IBM i programs. Well,

IBM i—Live Long and Prosper (Just Add Open Source)
Last week CNN printed an article highlighting the struggles of several state governments to handle the tsunami of unemployment claims in the wake of the

Get Started with FREE PHP on IBM i!
Easily set up the new, free Community PHP using RPM and YUM on IBM i It is so exciting to see how many IBM i

Stop Talking Modernization
I was visiting an IBM i customer recently for a presentation on IBM i “modernization”. After the presentation, I got the opportunity to spend time

5 Reasons to Try Python for Your IBM i
The popularity of Python has spiked over the last couple years according to the Tiobe Index (a measurement of programming language popularity https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/). Looking to

Get the Most Out of Your IBM i Applications with Native Node, Python, and PHP
How would you like to add millions of programmers to your staff without having to pay for them? Sound too good to be true? Well,

Open Source Languages the Right Way with IBM i
With all the new Open Source announcements for the IBM i in 2019, many IBM i users are justifiably excited and anxious to start using

Better Software Testing with True Cloud for IBM i
In 2019, IBM made the exciting announcement that you could now manage IBM i instances in the Public Cloud (eg. the IBM Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure

More Than Just a New Address—Check Out IBM i in the Cloud!
Oftentimes when I speak with IBM i users about moving to the Cloud, they tell me it is too expensive. When I dig deeper, I

Cloning Around in the Cloud on IBM i
I just got back from a customer visit where I heard that the executives were frustrated because they could not move their IBM i applications

I Have Seen the Enemy—And it is Us (And I Say that with Love)
It is time for us (IBM i IT professionals) to drive new technology initiatives. Every day, I speak with IBM i users who, like me,

Use JavaScript for Leading Edge User Experiences on Your IBM i
A popular myth surrounding the IBM i is that its user interface is limited to green screen 5250 displays. It’s NOT! You can build the most modern,

Componentize to Modernize the IBM i
Way back in the early 1980s, when I worked for IBM, I used to teach a class in application design concepts for the System/38 (the

RIP Rip and Replace for IBM i Modernization
Low Risk, High Reward Modernization for IBM i (AS/400) Why would you do it any other way? So, you want to modernize your applications and