CL/400 – How to convert Spool file to Notepad
Hello Friends, I have a question. In my current project, I have to covert a spool file to notepad and this notepad I have to send it as an attachment to one email address. Question 1: How can I convert spool file to notepad? Question 2: How can I send a notepad as attachment to [...]

Answer Question   |  January 27, 2009  8:54 AM
AS/400 import/export, CL, CL/400, Spool files

How to check if email option is enabled on a AS/400 server
How to check if email option is enabled on a AS400 server

Answer Question   |  January 24, 2009  10:15 AM
AS/400 administration, AS/400 email, CL, CL/400

Send a break message to multiple users
How to send a break message to multiple users.SNBRKMSG has the option to send it only to worksations.

Answer Question   |  January 23, 2009  10:03 AM
CL, CL/400, Send Break Message, SNBRKMSG

ALCOBJ scope
I want to allocate the dataarea by using ALCOBJ command and i am confused the in selecting the scope. Can anyone explain me abt the difference betwwen JOB scope and THREAD scope in details ?

Answer Question   |  January 23, 2009  7:09 AM
ALCOBJ, Allocate Object, CL, CL/400, JOB scope, THREAD scope

Maximum number of CL variables with IBM i 6.1
What is the maximum number of variables that you may define using the DCL command in a CL program on an IBM i version 6.1 system? Also: Where is this documented, if you know? I couldn’t find it in the online help, Information Center, or CL Programming PDF. Thanks!

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2010  10:27 PM
AS/400, CL, CL programming, CL variables, DCL command, Declare CL Variable, IBM i, IBM i 6.1, iSeries, OS/400, System i

RPG/400 – CL command to search a record like CHAIN opcode in RPG
Please advice we have any command there in CL to search or find a record like CHAIN opcode in RPG.

Answer Question   |  December 30, 2009  6:43 AM
AS/400 Control Language, CHAIN, CL, RPG, RPG/400

RPG/400 – How to check if record is reaching end of the file in CL
Please advice me how to chck record is reaching end of the file in CL.

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2009  6:39 AM
AS/400 Control Language, CL, RPG, RPG/400

Unable to override a PF member
Hi, I am trying to override a physical file using CL. The CL program is being called by a CBLLE program. In the CBLLE program, I want to process the overridden member.But,all the processing is going on the first member only.It looks like as soon as the CL program terminates DLTOVR gets executed automatically (though [...]

Answer Question   |  October 22, 2011  1:31 PM
CBLLE, CL, DLTOVR, OVRDBF, PF, Physical File

Not able to override a database file in CL
Hi, I am trying to override a physical file using CL. But,when I go and delete the override, I get an exception that it was never overriden. Any help will be highly appreciated

Answer Question   |  January 16, 2009  1:13 PM
AS/400 Control Language, CL, DLTOVR, OVRDBF, Physical File

CL problem with purge
The below code was written to automatically purge files once in 2 months.The problem here is that there are months with 30,31 and 28 days so while deletion some files may be left out.Can this be rectified. CHGVAR VAR(&PYD) VALUE(&PYC) CHGVAR VAR(&PMD) VALUE(&PMC) CHGVAR VAR(&PDD) VALUE(&PDC) CHGVAR VAR(&PMD) VALUE(&PMD-2) IF COND(&PMD *LT 1) THEN(DO) CHGVAR [...]

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2009  3:15 PM
CL, CL programming

MSGW
Thank You for your reply But I need the process how I can write a program in order to get all the process to be done that is, giving opt7 & reply ‘G’ for a MSGW job. Or can I have any other process to do the same that means sending a reply to a [...]

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2009  4:43 AM
AS/400 administration, CL, Message Waiting, MSGW, RPGLE

CL Program
Hello, Where do I write a CL Program in the iSeries? step by step. thanks

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  4:35 PM
CL, CL programming

ftp rpg
Hi I have called a program which would read the contents of the FTPLOG file member for successful transmission and sets an error flag ERR accordingly.Now i need to pass this value from the RPG to CL and use it to send a notification CALL PGM(FTPLOG) IF COND(&ERR *EQ ‘Y’) SNDUSRMSG MSG(‘FTP Transmission Failure,Please Transmit [...]

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  3:17 PM
CL, FTP, FTPLOG, RPG

ftp in As400
OVRDBF FILE(OUTPUT) TOFILE(*LIBL/FTPSRC) + MBR(FTPLOG) FTP RMTSYS(’123.4.5.678′) DLTOVR FILE(INPUT OUTPUT) Can you let me know if the above code would write the FTP transmission details to file ftplog.

Answer Question   |  January 8, 2009  3:14 PM
AS/400 FTP, CL, FTP

How to strip comments from CL program?
Anyone know of a utility that will strip comments out of a CL program? We have many programs with more comments than actual code (for history purposes) and I’d like to see just the actual code. And no, I don’t want to RTVCLSRC and lose indentation, etc.

Answer Question   |  December 14, 2011  8:06 PM
CL, CL Comment Stripping, CL programs, CL utility

MSGW in WRKACTJOB
How to end a job in MSGW how we can give in a program all the proces to give OPT-7 in front of a job which is in MSGW & giving ‘G’ to end that in RPGLE /CLLE progrm that too in a scheduled time

Answer Question   |  May 3, 2012  5:46 AM
CL, CLLE, Message Waiting status, MSGW, RPG, RPGLE, WRKACTJOB in AS400

CL AND RPGLE
can i call an rpgle prog from a cl by passing parameters from cl. Also how do i debug these two sources which are of different types.I am not able to use strisdb to link the modules.

Answer Question   |  January 4, 2009  1:13 PM
Calling an RPGLE program from CL, CL, CL Parameters, RPG, RPGLE, RPGLE Program

CL
In a CL code how to determine what are all the codes that require monmsg?

Answer Question   |  January 2, 2009  10:19 AM
CL

cl
DCL &TEXTFILENM *CHAR 40 dcl &curdt *char 6 dcl &curtm *char 6 /* build your CL file name as */ RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QDATE) RTNVAR(&CURDT) RTVSYSVAL SYSVAL(QTime) RTNVAR(&CURTM) ChgVar &TextFileNm (QDATE *TCAT QTIME *TCAT ‘.TXT’ CPYTOIMPF … To stream file . . . . . . . . . TOSTMF &TextFileNm Am able to build a string [...]

Answer Question   |  December 31, 2008  9:45 AM
CL, CL programming, CPYTOIMPF

cl
If i create txt files in as400 directory with naming convention AA20080101 can we purge these files using an AS400 command.

Answer Question   |  December 31, 2008  2:23 PM
AS/400 command keys, AS/400 Directory, AS/400 Naming Convention, CL