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Service Programs With A Smile
25 Sept 2003 - An introduction to service programs. Discusses the maintenance benefits of service program, some of the pitfalls to watch out for, and how to get started creating and employing them.
Binder Source: The Little Language That Could
23 Oct 2003 - A binder source langauge primer. Discusses how to improve the maintenance of service programs and make them backward compatible by employing binder source.
Customizing Your Development with Extensible RPG
4 Dec 2003 - An introduction to binding directories and a discussion of how to "extend" RPG for your particular needs.
What You Should Know About Activation Groups
11 Feb 2004 - An introduction to activation groups. Discusses the different options for utilizing activation groups in your ILE programs.
ILE in Practice
7 Apr 2004 - Illustrates by example how to build an ILE application from a variety of components based on the approach outlined in the previous articles. Includes source code downloads. One of the service programs is also a very handy option-level security manager that you could easily incorporate into your own software.
Changing Prototypes and Dual Prototyping
12 May 2004 - Discusses approaches for changing an existing protoype's parameters and introduces the concept of "Dual Prototyping".
Date Handling in RPGIV
19 May 2004 - An introduction to Date Handling in RPGIV. Discusses the Date data variable type, date literals, date formatting, and date creation. Also covers the basics of date math and determining date sub-fields.
Encapsulating File Access in a Service Program
21 July 2004 - An introduction to encapsulation and how to implement encapsulation of a database file in a Service Program.
Using the SQL Features in Operations Navigator
15 September 2004 - An introduction to using the IBM supplied SQL Statements tool in Operation Navigator.
How to Use the *NOPASS and *OMIT Parameter Options
5 January 2005 - An overview of two valuable parameter options.
More on RPG Encapsulation
12 January 2005 - A continuation of Encapsulation in RPG.
Embedding SQL in /free
2 March 2005 - An introduction to embedding SQL in free-format RPGIV.
Embedding SQL in RPG IV--Episode I
10 August 2005 - An introduction to embedding SQL in RPGIV.
Embedding SQL in RPG IV--Episode II
24 August 2005 - More on embedding SQL in RPGIV.

RPG Programming Code Samples

Occasionally I will make some source code available. Typically these are going to be program or module templates that I use in my shop.
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RPG Programming Tutorials

As I get time to write them, I will publish RPG Programming Tutorials on the site based on my live experiences in our daily production environment. They are meant as "how to's" rather than technical explanations, and as such they will be short on the in depth workings of the compiler, memory handling, and other gory details. What they will do is outline what works for me and why I do things the way I do: hopefully my insights and experiences will prove beneficial for you.

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