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articles relating to IBM i Application Development.
Susan and Jon write a monthly column focussed on leveraging
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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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