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Available Certifications for AS/400 Developers

Mohan K — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:47:27 +0000

Hi All,

I have been working on AS400 as a Developer on RPG IV, CL and DB2/400 for around 4 years and i wanted to do any certification regards to AS400. Actually I’m planned to write RPG IV Certification Exam(Certification No :268), but recently i came to know from my friend that this certification is not available from IBM. Could anyone please tell me what are the AS400 certifactions available which will be valuable in market and useful in our Career.

STRSBS for single environment in AS/400

Nelson012 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:28:33 +0000

Dear Friends, I want to know about STRSBS for single Environment, in my System 3 different environment like
A) Development (DVP)
B) Testing (TST)
C) Production 1 (510)
D) Production 2 (710)
Now I want STRSBS for 510 Environment only and rest of all Environments will be work but not 510 it should be hold, now I need develop like this program, is it possible or not if possible please explain me
Thanks & Regards
Nelson

Sending an email with a link to a .csv file that’s too large to email

Kprazor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:18:48 +0000

My program creates a .csv that is copied to the IFS. It is too large to attach to email. I want to send an email with a link to the file. How do I do that?

How to make password characters invisible in AS400?

vssagar — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:09:26 +0000

I am designing a login screen in AS400 box. How do I make the characters invisible while entering the password? Need Help!!

RPGLE /free syntax question

Snegron10 — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:41:28 +0000

I am modifing some code I found, and trying to add multiple ‘or’ statement. I have tried several different way to get the code to compile, but I always get errors. Can someone please tell me the proper syntax for the following statement below??

if Jobbstatus = ‘MSGW’ and SubShort = ‘QBATCH’ or +

Jobbstatus = ‘MSGW’ and SubShort = ‘QPGMR’ or +

Jobbstatus = ‘MSGW’ and SubShort = ‘QPGMR1′;

What I’m trying to test is, if Jobbstatus is MSGW, and if SubShort is any of the following subsystems, QBATCH, QPGMR, QPGMR1.

Also, how about if Jobbstatus was either ‘MSGW’ or ‘RUN’? I have a second if statement, but it would be nice if I could test both MSGW and RUN along with the different subsystems as well. That would eliminate the need for 2 if statements.

if Jobbstatus = ‘MSGW’ or ‘RUN’ and SubShort = ‘QBATCH’ or +

SubShort = ‘QPGMR’ or +

SubShort = ‘QPGMR1′;

Thanks.

finding parameters in as/400 program objects

TNKR — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:59:35 +0000

how do you find the parameters passed to a program if we dont have source and we have only object and cannot debug it

iSeries – DBCS

Pmr — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:22:57 +0000

Hi We have an application with front-end (Java in RS/6000) and the back-end (COBOL in iSeries). Currently, the front-end browser panels send the data through MQ to iSeries. But before sending data to iSeries, the Java will do conversion from ASCII to EBCDIC programmatically for character encoding from Unicode to EBCDIC.

For example, If the Java program encountered character ‘A’, hex value of ‘A’ in ASCII is 0×41 it will replace it with corresponding EBCDIC hex value which is 0xC1. All characters are replaced with single byte corresponding characters. Code page we are using is ’37′.

Now we have a requirement to deploy this application in Chinese environment. But Chinese and other language characters occupy more than one byte (DBCS). Hence,currently our system will not support this feature. To support multi language text , we are planing to support UTF-16 encoding.

The questions I have are ?

a) Is AS/400 capable of handling UTF-16 to EBCIDIC conversion ?

b) If yes , what changes do we need to make at back-end ? To be more specific what is the corresponding CCSID in AS/400 for UTF-16 encoding.

c) What kind of considerations do we have to take in terms of CCSID set up at User profile levels, Job levels, System levels etc etc

d) I guess if we have to deploy this application, we need to make changes to the current conversion program as explained earlier to make sure that it converts the data to a different code page (other than 37) for DBCS EBCIDIC scheme.

e) What data type is appropriate for DBCS Chinese characters in iSeries (O, E, G)?

Thanks a lot

creating menus

ten2008 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:06:33 +0000

Hi anybody tell me how can we add the parameters to a new menu thru SDA. eg: for DSPUSRPRF i need to provide the user profile name. Instead i want to give &user1 and want to supply it by prompting. thanks

AS/400 call stack

ten2008 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:19:18 +0000

Hi how can i know the list of called programs in the existing active call stack? Plz help

How to see the source for the AS/400 objects?

ten2008 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:59:09 +0000

I am having a server at my office which has a project application running on it.I need to access the Cl/RPG/CMD/PNLGRP and file objects on it to modify them and restore.I tried for the DSPOBJD and *SERVICE to find the source library and file but couldn’t retrieve from that combination. I think the library may be made not authorised for me, not sure. I resolved the CLP issue by RTVCLSRC command. But how to get the source files for all other objects? Plz advise me. thanks