The Midrange Dynamics team joined together in a practice of gratitude. See what some of our team members are thankful for this year!

I'm grateful for great family, friends, and colleagues. I was lucky enough to get a job working with some of the nicest people in the industry! I'm very thankful for the IBM i community. Having worked in Windows and Unix communities, let me tell you, we have the best community for networking, collaboration, and helping each other out of any IT community. We are so lucky!

I am grateful for being surrounded by witty, kind and interesting people, at home and in my work environment, and all the fish that took my bait in the Maldives this year.

I am grateful for the many unexpected and delightful surprises this year.

Cheers for even more in 2023!

I am thankful for our great companies who pay promptly and communicate with kindness and clarity. We have some wonderful clients!

Chai Spiced Pumpkin Pie is an easy twist on a classic favorite. Make your pumpkin pie even more delicious by adding warm chai spices! Check out the recipie from Flavor the Moment and give it a try for your Thanksgiving dinner!

I’m so proud to be a part of the Midrange Dynamics family! I will be writing a regular column in this newsletter, so if there are any particular topics you’d be interested to read about, please drop me a line and let me know.

I’ve had some very interesting jobs over the years and worked with some interesting people. One particular fellow who worked for me especially caught my interest. I discovered he had formerly worked in a circus as a human cannonball! I had to fire him.

I’m pleasantly surprised about how easy it has become to work with delimited strings in RPG with the recent enhancements from IBM. For splitting a delimited string into fields, they added the %SPLIT built-in function in April 2021. It works like this...

We all love our Power Systems but changing hardware can be a big deal. What isn’t is getting MDChange (MDCMS) on your new machine. Simply go to the MD Customer Portal and put in a ticket. Tell us your current and new hardware serial numbers and partition IDs. We will generate 90-day codes for your new hardware. When you complete your move, let us know, and we will generate perm codes for you. There is no charge for this process, so just plan ahead for a stress-free move.

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