In recent years, the business world has realized the impact information systems have on business effectiveness. As a result, you are now expected to use high-level encryption to store sensitive information, to write interfaces between Microsoft Windows and AS/400 RPG applications, and to integrate your business applications with the Web. This book will show you how you can use APIs to do all of this and more. You will come to realize that there is nothing you cannot do with iSeries and AS/400 APIs if you know where to look. When you have completed this book, you will be able to: Use APIs to write Web pages to the Internet from your iSeries and AS/400 RPG IV programs, process standard list APIs and asynchronous open list APIs, build, populate, and work with user spaces, create dynamic indices with user index APIs, write programs that enable your iSeries and AS/400 to communicate with PCs using Sockets, use APIs to retrieve system values, job information, and job queue information, use APIs with user data queues and remote data queues, handle errors using both the standard error data structure and global variables, use message-handling APIs, use APIs to read and write encrypted passwords, process spooled files with APIs, and use and manage validation lists.
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Here is your guide to mastering hundreds of new APIs available on the iSeries and AS/400 to effectively solve business problems. RPG wizards Doug Pence and Ron Hawkins reveal how to use APIs for everything from extracting information from deep within the recesses of your system to delivering pages to the World Wide Web. Each chapter is full of real business-world examples that you can modify and use in your own environment.
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I am Doug Pence. I am currently a technical editor for Midrange Computing magazine. I am also the founder and vice president of Computer Processing Unlimited, Inc. in San Diego, California. My association with the magazine began in 1983, when the magazine was a small technical newsletter named DataNetwork. My career in software dates back to the late 1970's. I have designed dozens of systems and have had the privilege of working on every IBM midrange system from the System/3 to the AS/400. I have worked together with Ron Hawkins off and on since 1979, and we currently share the research and development duties at Computer Processing Unlimited, Inc. We have also written two books and a video for Midrange Computing. The names of the books are Power RPG III and Power RPG IV and they focus on advanced concepts, tips, and techniques. We also put a video together called Converting your AS/400 Applications for the Year 2000.
Hi, I am Ron Hawkins. I am currently a technical editor for Midrange Computing magazine. I am the the head of Research & Development at Computer Processing Unlimited, Inc. in San Diego, California. My association with the magazine began in 1983, when the magazine was a small technical newsletter named DataNetwork. My career in software date back to the late 1970's. Together with Doug Pence, I have designed dozens of systems and have had the privilege of working on every IBM midrange system from the System/3 to the AS/400. We have worked together off and on since 1979, and currently share the research and development duties at Computer Processing Unlimited, Inc. We have also written two books and a video for Midrange Computing. The names of the books are Power RPG III and Power RPG IV and they focus on advanced concepts, tips, and techniques. We also put a video together called Converting your AS/400 Applications for the Year 2000.
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This review is from: iSeries and AS/400® APIs at Work (Paperback)
While this book contains some ideas on a handful of AS00 API's, none are very useful in programming. The example code is sometimes incomplete and very often error filled. This would be good for an sysadmin, but not for programmers.
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All APIs use a set of standards that define how system programs communicate with application programs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Input Char, Parameter Description, Input Binary, Output Char Varies, Optional Group, Retrieve User Space, Eval Cmd, Input Integer, Eval Pos, Output Integer, Retrieve Job Information, General Header, Name Description, Submit Job, Position Description, Parm Command, Retrieve Data Area, Retrieve Job Queue Information, Retrieve User Information, Send Program Message, Eval Command, Output Binary, Receive Data Queue, Retrieve Job Status, Local Variables New!
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All APIs use a set of standards that define how system programs communicate with application programs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Input Char, Parameter Description, Input Binary, Output Char Varies, Optional Group, Retrieve User Space, Eval Cmd, Input Integer, Eval Pos, Output Integer, Retrieve Job Information, General Header, Name Description, Submit Job, Position Description, Parm Command, Retrieve Data Area, Retrieve Job Queue Information, Retrieve User Information, Send Program Message, Eval Command, Output Binary, Receive Data Queue, Retrieve Job Status, Local Variables New!
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