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10 Facts You Should Know about Special Values
by Ted Holt

Imagine not being allowed to code *FIRST in the MBR parameter of the Override with Database File (OVRDBF) command. Horrible thought, isn't it? Special values make commands more sensible and easy to use. Here are 10 facts every IBM i developer should know in order to effectively use special values in his own commands. READ MORE >

VALUES: A Truly Useless DDS Keyword
Hey, Ted:

We had a recent crisis in our shop. When we dug to the root of the problem, we found that one of our files had an invalid value in one of the fields. I don't understand why this was the case, because the programmer who wrote the DDS used the VALUES keyword on the field in question. Does the VALUES keyword not prevent invalid data from entering the database? READ MORE >



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Limiting How Much Memory a Storage Pool Can Allocate
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
10 Facts You Should Know about Special Values

VALUES: A Truly Useless DDS Keyword

Limiting How Much Memory a Storage Pool Can Allocate

Four Hundred Guru

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