iSeries EXTRA is a monthly e-mail newsletter that features articles
relating to AS/400 and iSeries Application Development. Susan and
Jon write a monthly column focussed on leveraging existing RPG development
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This page lists the articles published in 2003.
For a listing of articles published in 2004 Click
here For articles prior to 2003 Click
here.
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| User Spaces and List APIs | |
| This column provides an introduction to using User Spaces in RPG
programs, and in particular how they are utilized with the List-type
APIs. As an example we demonstrate how to automatically identify
and update all programs that use a specified Service Program. |
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| By Now, the Case for RPG IV Should Be a No-Brainer | |
| Still having problems convincing your management and/or fellow
programmers that you should be switching all of your RPG/400 programs
to RPG IV? This article may help you to overcome their objections. |
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| Service Programs and Signatures | |
| ILE Service Programs provide a "level-check" mechanism
to help you to ensure that the correct version is in use. This
article explains signatures and outlines your options for managing
them. |
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| An RPG Wish List | |
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In 2003 Jon and Susan decided to send an early Christmas list to
Santa. See what they were wishing for ........ |
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| /Free Your I/O Operations | |
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This article focusses on some of the powerful new I/O related features
included with V5R2. |
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| Ending those Decimal Data Error Blues | |
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Can't get rid of those pesky decimal data errors? This article
shows you how to combine V5R2's new I/O options with V5R1's MONITOR
to bring them under control! |
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| CGIDEV2: IBM's Hidden Gem | |
| We mentioned IBM's free CGIDEV2 library in our series of articles
on RPG web programming, but there is so much more at the site than
just the CGIDEV2 library itself. This article takes you on a brief
guided tour. |
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| Data Structure Enhancements in V5R1 and V5R2 | |
| For all those programmers who have been praying for multidimensional
array, user defined data types and just generally more power in their
D specs, V5 offers some great new features. This piece describes just
a few of them. |
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| Another Point on Pointers and "What About Education?" | |
| Two pieces in one this month. We start by revisiting last month's
"D-spec Discoveries" article before moving on to discuss
the importance of education. |
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| D-spec Discoveries | |
| A look at some of the lesser known features of the D-spec. Including
a number of solutions to the question "How do I directly load
fields from a record into an array".. |
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| New Year's Resolutions - 2003 | |
| Start off the year 2003 with our suggestions for some iSeries related
New Year's Resolutions!. |
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