Blogs and articles about IBM products and services past, present and future from the UK woman in technology blogger.
By Linda Garrould — Reviewed 7 June 2026 A little trip down memory lane, and a small piece of computing history worth recording. Sorting through some old IT kit recently I came across an IBM AS/400 Softcopy Library CD-ROM — and it took me straight back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the … Read more
By Linda Garrould — Reviewed 16 August 2026 What is AS400? AS400 is the everyday name for IBM’s midrange business computing platform — also known, depending on the decade, as iSeries, System i and (since 2008) IBM i. Launched in 1988 as the successor to the System/38, it is an integrated system of hardware, operating … Read more
The CPYTOIMPF command seems to ignore the PCASCII parameter. This blog explains how to fix this issue and export data from IBMI to ASCII CSV successfully from the command line or CL program.