RPG has, since the beginning of time, supported a set of indicators — one byte characters that can be either *on or *off. These are popular but really shouldn’t be used any more. Being named *IN01 to *IN99 makes for indicators whose function is unclear and you are much better Read more…
So here’s the situation: Five warehouses populating five sets of files (same filenames, different libraries) and I have an RPGLE program that needs to read through each of these to accumulate dispatch information. The traditional way of doing this would involve writing a CL program to OVRDBF to each file Read more…
If you spend any time developing RPG applications you will find that, sooner or later, you will need to debug a program that runs in batch. There are a few steps that you need to take in order to do this and, because my memory is terrible, I’m putting them Read more…
I’m a big fan of service programs. From a maintainability point of view, encapsulated procedures are great. And exported procedures, which mean you only need to develop any piece of functionality once, are even better. However, I now find myself in the position of having to start creating a set Read more…