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Add Powerful Generic Processing to Your Applications
by Ted Holt

Each month I perform a ritual by which I attempt to placate the gods Sarbanes and Oxley. One task involves repeatedly selecting a certain menu option, filling the entry fields with different values each time. What an annoyance. Fortunately there are ways to eliminate repetition programmatically, and the use of generic names is one such way. READ MORE >

Meet JSON
by Alex Roytman

If you have done Web application development with any modern toolset or technology lately, you have undoubtedly run across a trusty friend of mine: JSON (pronounced Jason). In recent years, JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, has become the data interchange format of choice for Web applications. It has allowed many Web frameworks to flourish and has tremendously simplified my own job of creating IBM i web applications and frameworks. READ MORE >



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Admin Alert: When You Can't Answer Record Lock Errors
by Joe Hertvik

Recently, a client had a problem with Power i record allocation messages. When a program crashed with an RPG1218 record lock inquiry message, the system didn't ask for a message reply. Instead, it automatically answered the message with a D to dump program data and end the job. The client didn't want this to happen. He'd rather answer the message himself and retry the allocation. Here's what happened and how it applies to all i OS shops. READ MORE >


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Add Powerful Generic Processing to Your Applications

Meet JSON

Admin Alert: When You Can't Answer Record Lock Errors

Four Hundred Guru

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