Converting Alpha to Numeric

Hey, Ted:

My AS/400 is receiving data from a shipping system through an ODBC connection. My RPG III (RPG/400) program needs to convert a nine-byte alphanumeric field to a number. The alpha field may contain zero or more digits, a decimal point, and two digits. How can I convert the alpha field to a number?

-- Duane

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Retrieve Qshell Exit Status in CL Programs

Hey, Ted:

In the article, "Using Grep to Search Source Physical Files", which published in the November 13, 2002, issue of Midrange Guru, you presented a way to extract Qshell's return code when running a Qshell utility in a CL program. I know a better way.

-- Ken

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Reader Feedback and Insights: Effective Communication

Thanks for presenting the message queue solution to the question posed by Bill in the January 22, 2003, issue of Midrange Guru. At first, it may seem like a lot of overhead. That's what I thought when I first had a consultant design an interactive screen and he handled the messages that way. But here's what I liked about the solution the more I used it:

-- Doug

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