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Volume 11, Number 29 -- October 5, 2011
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Call Again and Again and Again...
by Paul Tuohy

In programming terms, recursion is the process whereby a function may call itself. Traditionally, this is something we are not used to in RPG. Programs and subroutines cannot call themselves. Or if you did somehow manage it (and you could), you would get unpredictable results. READ MORE >

Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB
by Bruce Guetzkow

A couple of years ago I needed to develop a process where a group of items could be selected from a screen and a report listing those items could be generated. On the surface, a simple task. Of course, if you give a mouse a cookie, they're going to want a glass of milk, or another report. . . and another. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors
by Joe Hertvik

Your organization's fiscal year may have ended on September 30. Meaning you could soon be visited by auditors looking for information on how your organization operates its AS/400-class machine (iSeries, System i, Power i). Your auditors will be particularly interested in your password configuration parameters and whether they meet standards. To that end, here's a quick drill for retrieving password setup values at audit time. READ MORE >


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Call Again and Again and Again...

Another Way to Pass Parms to SBMJOB

Admin Alert: How to Retrieve Password Parameters for Auditors

Four Hundred Guru

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