From AS/400 to iSeries to System i to IBM i on Power
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AS400, IBM i, iSeries, Programming, SQL
another snippet from an old document I found in a dim dark and hazy corner of an even older HDD… rather than let it disintegrate, here it is migrating to the web just in the (extreme) off chance that it may be useful to someone out there. Hey.. if YOU are reading this then its …
So, lets start on the right foot. I cannot spell. Even though I spend my life reading books, reading technical documentation, writing programs, typing web content and am surrounded by the written (and digital) word for 20 hours a day I will admit to being a terrible speller.
It’s the common words that get me, and of course, my own particular brand of over; punctuating every-thing!!!! 😉
Anyway, I digress.
I dont have a problem with the myriad of miss-spelt words on line, or the new text-speak that is becoming so common in blogs and online articles by those of us who are still the sunny side of 30. alrite m8? The trouble is using search engines to find information when it is clearly written in a different language. No, not French or German, not even British or American English, but quite simply English and badly-spelt-English.
...The process for developing software is really simple, it just needs to be burned into your brain. If you are just starting a career in programming you will hear the acronym “SDLC” thrown around. So here is a quick little primer. The SDLC is also known as Classic Life Cycle Model (or) Linear Sequential Model …
How can u send Parameters through LDA to another program and how do you receive?
CHGDTAARA-CL
RCVDTARA-CL
IN and OUT in RPG
If the first Read returns End of file then there is no records in the PF
Read PF
QSNDTAQ
No
No
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another snippet from an old document I found in a dim dark and hazy corner of an even older HDD… rather than let it disintegrate, here it is migrating to the web just in the (extreme) off chance that it may be useful to someone out there. Hey.. if YOU are reading this then its …
iSeries, AS400, IBM i, Programming, RPG
PSDS – Program Status Data Structure A program status data structure (PSDS) can be defined in an RPG program and it makes program exception/error information available to the RPG program. The PSDS must be defined in the main source section; therefore, there is only one PSDS per module. A data structure is defined as a …
Found some more old documents (I didnt write them so dont shoot the poor AS400 programming messenger) that I’ve decided to move to the forum rather than leave in the dusty corners of my hard drive…..
1. Advantages of ILE:
RPG IV is more readable
Allows for greater application modularity with static binding which means there are fewer external calls.
Enhances programmer productivity by allowing greater code re use
Enhances mixed language support by allowing the binding ILE languages into a single program
Builds a foundation for the future by moving closer to object oriented design , modular programming and code reuse
Enhancements in RPGIV
Mixed Case entry permitted
Compiler is not case sensitive
Compiler can translate mixed case to upper case.
Character names allowed
Full DDS length supported
I’ve been a longtime user of Microsoft products from the early days of Dos through to the current incarnation of Vista. On the whole they are great and despite rumblings from the nay-Sayers of Microsoft is evil or Bill Gates controls the black helicopters and Vista stinks you should use mac/Linux/OS2/etc whichever way you look …
So, I’ve decided its time for me to step up to the plate (to use a strange Americanism) and get ready to take my collection of IBM i Software Developer Utilities to the next level… *Deep Breath* PROJEX4I is Ready… nearly 😉 I’m at the final part of a major product re-write for PROJEX4I and …
AS400 is Legend JULY 2019 UPDATE —Â This is an old Blog. I can’t believe I wrote this over ten years ago. But, I look in the mirror and see this gray racing silver bonce and I realize that it really might have been this long ago. In recent years, RDi has become the RPG CODE …