OPNQRYF Has No "If" But You Can Fake It
Hey, Ted:

We recently started adding Web customers to our customer master file, in which a customer ID is a field of seven characters. The ID's of Web customers consist of the letter 'W' followed by six digits. Is there any way using OPNQRYF to change only the customer IDs that start with 'W' to the customer number '5000000' for reporting purposes? Doing so would allow us to keep a lot of existing programs running without a lot of modification. READ MORE >

Embed PJL Statements in a Workstation Customizing Object
by Michael Sansoterra

Modern day printers are fabulous in all that they do. In addition to accepting basic ASCII text streams, modern general purpose laser printers usually process either postscript (PS) or printer command language (PCL) streams to generate ornate printouts. So what about using these printers with the IBM i? If the printer understands PCL (or a few other data streams such as IBM's PPDS or Epson FX/LQ), then there is no problem because IBM's host print transform functionality magically converts SCS/AFP spool files into one of the aforementioned data streams that the printer can understand. The host print transform function has made most of my life doing IBM i based printing has been very good--until recently. READ MORE >