Ibm i information sources more and more are drying out

[Peder Udesen]

Is it just me or are you also feeling that the information sources for Ibm i more and more are drying out ?

Reading this announcement that IBM Systems magazine will cease publishing at the end of 2020
https://www.itjungle.com/2020/11/04/...ommunity-site/

News400 / iSeriesnews and DeveloperWorks disappeared years ago.

The IBM Community should replace DeveloperWorks but I find that the IBM Community home page is a mess
and have never figured it out.

Fortunately we still have some good sites like

https://www.itjungle.com/

https://www.mcpressonline.com//programming/rpg/

http://www.scottklement.com/
https://www.rpgpgm.com/

http://think400.dk/

to mention a few.

The fora have also disappeared. And the knowledge in them too.
The only English speaking left as far as I know is

https://code400.com/forum/forum

Understanding German ( not my native language ) I have also found this

http://newsolutions.de/forum-systemi-as400-i5-iseries/

But never the less - do you know other usefull sites ?

[EmmanuelW1]

midrange.com

Cheers,

Emmanuel

[Ghost +]

There are a number of resources available on https://www.common.org but I'm pretty sure most (or all) is behind a paywall. There are also groups on LinkedIn that you can seek assistance from too, but most of them need approvals for gaining access and some can take months for that approval to get in.

[Barbara Morris]

I second the motion about midrange.com.

I often add "site:midrange.com" to my google searches because the mailing list archives have so much useful information.

My impression is that there are more people following the midrange.com mailing lists than participate in these code400 forums, although there are many people who follow both.

[Peder Udesen]

Midrange.com can be usefull when searching for a specific problem.
But the articles in IBM Systems magazine and ITJungle very often tells me about
improvements and tips and tricks that I otherwise never would know about.

And there is a major difference in an article about a theme ie debugging via RDI and
a bunch of mails from a mail list.

[Barbara Morris]

There is also some RPG and IBM i activity on Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com. I am following the rpg, rpgle, and as400 tags. Occasionally, there are posts about role playing games tagged with "rpg", but the role playing game community and the ILE RPG community have so far managed to just ignore the other posts.