Anilist-IBMi

A basic display file and RPGLE program built over the Anilist GraphQL API (Just for fun/practice). Enter an Anilist username and display basic account stats. This is not meant to be a full API wrapper or handle all errors.

I wanted to make some dedicated UDF's and clean up my code, but its good enough for such a simple application.

This is my first IBM i side project using GNU Make, git, and VS Code. I still used SDA for display files because its a lot less tedious.

Running

• Ensure that CCSID is 37 - chgjob ccsid(37)
• call Anilist

Commands

• Build - gmake all
• Clean - gmake clean
• Pull to IFS - gmake pull (still using SDA for DSPFs)
• Push to Library - gmake push
• Log - gmake > buildlog.txt 2>&1
• Git push - git -c http.sslVerify=false push origin master

VS Code

• SSH terminal session for running git and gmake commands
• SSH FS VS Code Extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Kelvin.vscode-sshfs
• Do not use CRLF line endings, use LF (lower right)

Setup Environment

-- Set user's default PASE Shell using DB2 for i
CALL QSYS2.SET_PASE_SHELL_INFO('*CURRENT', '/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash');

# Install git through yum (/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/)
yum install git.ppc64
yum install make-gnu.ppc64

# config git user
git config --global user.email "First.Last@somewhere.com"
git config --global user.name "First Last"

# Add yum packages install directory to PATH
touch ~/.profile
echo PATH=$PATH:/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin >> ~/.profile

References

• RPG & DB2 Summit 2019 - Liam's session on git + IBMi
• https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/RPG-vsCode-Getting-Started
• Fix DSPF open in linear main https://www.rpgpgm.com/2018/09/closing-all-files-with-one-operation-in.html
• https://www.scottklement.com/presentations/Options%20for%20Consuming%20REST%20APIs%20from%20RPG.pdf