• How to Setup an additional m-Power Production Environment

    Overview m-Power by default ships with a development and production environment. Often times on the helpdesk, I encounter inquires by administrators who are looking to create a third m-Power environment for one a few reasons: Steps

  • Using multi-member files with m-Power

    SQL and most data-bases other than DB2 have no concept of multi-member files. Since we designed m-Power to work with any data-base, we removed the member definitions that exist in the mrc-Productivity Series data dictionaries from the m-Power data dictionaries. At first glance, you might look at this and think…

  • mrc-Productivity Series / IBM V5R4 OS/400 Licensing Issue

    A recent OS/400 update from IBM has caused a licensing problem for several mrc-Productivity Series customers.You might encounter this problem if you apply V5R4 OS/400 updates, upgrade to V5R4 OS/400, or get a new server with a V5R4 OS/400. You will know that you are affected if, upon typing mrc…

  • mrc Tip: Working with the CSV file skeleton

    Having the ability to customize the views of your data is an important component to mrc’s tools, and the CSV output feature is no exception. And, formatting the CSV output in your applications is easy to do with the m-Painter feature. To start, go to the Manage Reports screen, and…