This morning I had an email from a blog subscriber ( Hi Rick! ) asking for a code tips on how to cleanup IFS file names to remove erroneous characters and/or malformed directory name slashes. Rather than reply with a plethora of programming options — here is an old, but functional, RPG code snippet that

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Sometimes you want to read a file but a field on that file is giving you problems because the name conflicts with something that already exists in your program. There are a few scenarios for this head scratching problem, but luckily it also has several solutions. So lets look at some basic problems: I am

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