Get the scoop on free-format RPG in the latest edition of this popular book, now updated for V5! This indispensable guide to RPG IV has been updated to include free-format C-specs, new built-in functions, and all the V5 features. A new appendix provides a complete, integrated reference to RPG IV's opcodes and BIFs -- a resource ven veteran programmers will appreciate.
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Bryan Meyers is familiar to most AS/400 technicians due to his contributions as a technical editor and writer for NEWS/400 magazine (now iSeries NEWS) for many years. Bryan is an accomplished book author and sought-after speaker. His other books include "VisualAge for RPG by Example" (co-authored with Jef Sutherland) and the highly respected textbooks, "Programming in RPG IV, Second Edition" (co-authored with Judy Yaeger) and "Control Language Programming for the AS/400, Second Edition" (co-authored with Dan Riehl). Bryan is president of The 400 School, Inc.
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A Small Dynamo of RPG IV ILE information,
By Brian "beflogic" (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RPG IV Jump Start, Fourth Edition: Your Guide to the New RPG (Paperback)
This is a 15 chapter, 3 appendixes book that is only 270 pages, yet it gets you into RPG ILE in a short span of time. The author does a great job of specifying the changes from RPG III to RPG IV. I like the way a chapter was devoted to each specification change from Header, File, D-spec, Input , to the Calc spec. There are chapters devoted to Free form expressions using the EVAL opcode and the book does a good job of covering the many variations of the EVAL expressions. The new RPG Built-in Functions are covered, where there is a conscious move to change from RPG III's use of conditioning and result indicators to RPG IV's appropriate Built-in Function, eg., use of %FOUND bif with the CHAIN opcode to return a true value when a record is found, whereas, in the RPG III way the resulting indicator was turned off when the record was successfully found. There is a chapter devoted to Procedures, Subprocedures, and Prototypes, and the author takes you through the process of declaring and defining the procedures in actual coding examples. There is a chapter devoted to the new date/time operations and date bif's. These go a long way to simplifying date handling operations that used to take several lines of code. All in all, a good jump start into RPG IV for the person with knowledge of RPG III.
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small pages, but soothfast contents,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: RPG IV Jump Start, Fourth Edition: Your Guide to the New RPG (Paperback)
This book is a good book for rpg programmer to learn RPG IV.
There are many examples that are easy to understand.
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Ever since IBM introduced Report Program Generator in the early 1960s, the RPG language has been largely responsible for bringing programming to "the masses" in the IBM midrange computer world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full procedural file, basing pointer, conditioning indicators, data structure name, numbered indicators, clata structure, standalone field, stricture name, externally described file, character string that can, halt indicator, keyword indicator, supported factor, resulting indicator, length notation, relative record number, procedure pointer, data stricture, numeric overflow, precision rules, decimal positions, timestamp field, search argument, source string, prototype definition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Columns Description, Integrated Language Environment, Create Bound, Numeric Numeric, Pointer Basing, Using Pointers, International Standards Organization, Result Target New!
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Ever since IBM introduced Report Program Generator in the early 1960s, the RPG language has been largely responsible for bringing programming to "the masses" in the IBM midrange computer world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full procedural file, basing pointer, conditioning indicators, data structure name, numbered indicators, clata structure, standalone field, stricture name, externally described file, character string that can, halt indicator, keyword indicator, supported factor, resulting indicator, length notation, relative record number, procedure pointer, data stricture, numeric overflow, precision rules, decimal positions, timestamp field, search argument, source string, prototype definition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Columns Description, Integrated Language Environment, Create Bound, Numeric Numeric, Pointer Basing, Using Pointers, International Standards Organization, Result Target New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Control Language Programming for the AS/400 (2nd Edition) by Bryan Meyers in Back Cover
- Rpg IV Jump Start: Moving Ahead With the New Rpg by Bryan Meyers in Back Cover
- Introduction to As/400 System Operations by Patrice Gapen in Back Matter
- Implementing Windows NT on the AS/400 by IBM in Back Matter
- Programming in RPG IV, Third Edition by Bryan Meyers in Back Cover
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