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Volume 4, Number 4 -- February 11, 2004


 
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What You Should Know About Activation Groups
by Joel Cochran

In the last several articles we began dipping our toes into the ILE waters by learning about service programs, binder source, and binding directories. You should now have a firm grasp of these building blocks and be ready to start constructing an ILE application. But before plowing ahead, we need to examine the most frustrating and least understood aspect of ILE: activation groups. READ MORE >

 

Soft-Coded Report Distribution
by Bruce Guetzkow

Printer files let programmers separate one type of output from program processing. When a printer file is created, several attributes can be specified (like output queue, copies) to simplify report routing instructions. But over time things change. You may, for instance, need to send reports to a different output queue or change the number of copies. The typical response is to update the affected printer files, provided you have the authority. This article presents an alternative: soft-coded report distribution. READ MORE >


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Dealing with Divided Date Fields
Hey, Ted:

Some of our ancient database files have separate fields for year, month, and day parts of a date. Combining separate fields to form single date fields is manageable but messy. Building logical files to combine the fields is not always practical, although we have done some of that. When digging around on Google one day, I accidentally discovered an SQL function that is well-suited for divided date fields. READ MORE >

 

The Better Way to Delete Physical Files
Hey, Ted:

You missed a possible link between two articles in the January 14 issue! The first article is "Why SQL, Why Now," and the second is "Deleting with a Generic File Name." READ MORE >

 
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  OS/400 Alert: SSL Certificates
  by Shannon O'Donnell

If your shop is one of the thousands using digital certificates to enable secure transactions between your iSeries and users' browsers, you may have recently experienced a problem with disabled certificate authorities. If not, chances are you will soon. Read on for more details. Also included in this issue is a list of a few of IBM's recommended fixes for OS/400 licensed programs. READ MORE >




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Editors: Howard Arner, Joe Hertvik, Ted Holt,
Shannon O'Donnell, Kevin Vandever
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
Contributing Editors: Raymond Everhart, G. Wayne Hawks,
Marc Logemann, David Morris
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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THIS ISSUE
SPONSORED BY:

T.L. Ashford
Profound Logic Software
Client Server Development
WorksRight Sofware
Bug Busters Software Engineering


BACK ISSUES

TABLE OF
CONTENTS
What You Should Know About Activation Groups

Soft-Coded Report Distribution

Dealing with Divided Date Fields

The Better Way to Delete Physical Files

OS/400 Alert: SSL Certificates







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