• Setting up m-Power on the AS400

    Configuring m-Power for the AS400 While m-Power ships to run directly from a Windows Operating System, setting up the configuration to run on an AS400 is straightforward and simple. The following instructions will walk you through the entire m-Power installation for the AS400. Download the m-Power software The software can…

  • Installing m-Power on Ubuntu Server

    Overview In this techblog, I wanted to share with you the steps I used to set up m-Power on Ubuntu Server, a popular “flavor” of Linux. Steps Testing To start Tomcat, type:/m-power/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh start To stop Tomcat, type:/m-power/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh stop You can access m-Power by using the following URL: http://Linux_IP_Address:8011/webapp/mrc

  • Modifying Redundant Data within Reports

      Modifying Redundant Data within Reports with Freemarker Let’s say we have a Report coming from two tables — a header table and a detail table. If there are 20 detail records for 1 header record, that header record’s information is going to repeat 20 times, one for each detail…

  • Moving Generated Servlets to Windows Production from AS400 Server

    Move Generated Java Servlets to Serve from Windows (Production Instance) for Web 2.0 Applications   This document assumes you have generated Java servlets on the iSeries. Then you wish to serve those apps from a Windows server in a production instance. Please follow these steps: Install a Run-Time instance of…

  • Using functions in your servlets

    One of the little known features of m-Power is the ability to call your own functions (or native database functions) through calculated fields. I’m going to show you how to do it with a pretty powerful example that takes about five minutes to build. First, some background Every database has…