Embedding SQL in RPG IV--Episode I
by Joel Cochran

I must admit that I've been a Star Wars geek since I was 7. The premier theater in Des Moines, Iowa, at the time was a three-screen stand-alone job that easily lent itself to the term "blockbuster." The line literally wrapped around the building, and we waited hours to get in and see the first installment of the space epic long before the movie-going public called it "A New Hope" or "Episode IV." Every kid I knew wanted to be Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. Almost 30 years later, I'm still entranced by the story, and I was more excited than my children (also Star Wars fans) when "Episode III" finally brought to life the missing pieces of the story. READ MORE >

Editing Numbers in CL
by Cletus the Codeslinger

Think about some of the PC-based software you use. You've never seen the source code. You don't know what interesting and esoteric techniques the programmer(s) used. All you know is what you see, which is how the program performs. You're happy when it works effectively and annoyed (or worse) when it doesn't. In other words, you're an end user. READ MORE >

   Five Ways to Access IFS Data from a Windows PC without FTP
   Hey, Joe:

I've been asked to investigate a way to transmit files from an AS/400 to a CREST messaging system using an Infrastructure for Financial Markets (IFM) gateway. The problem is that I have been asked not to use FTP to transmit these files between the two systems. Apart from FTP, what other options can I use to copy files from the IFS to my PC? READ MORE >

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