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OS/400 Edition
Volume 3, Number 31 -- May 7, 2003

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You Have Questions. The Gurus at Guild Companies Have Answers.

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TOP TEN REASONS

Why You Should
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Random Decisions in Java

Hey, David:

Where do you want to go to lunch? We can't come to a consensus; in fact, we can't even come up with a restaurant that two of us can agree on, so you are the tie breaker.

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Free-Format RPG and Date Conversions

Hey, Ted:

I find that the biggest problem with no support for MOVE in free-format RPG is the loss of the ability to easily change one date format to another.  The %DATE built-in function lets you convert a numeric or character field to a date data type, but where's the other half to let you convert the date data type to a numeric or character field?

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Reader Feedback and Insights: Tips We Can All Relate To

I really appreciate the "Hey Ted" items that come in my e-mail. I hear a lot of talk about Java, but all of my programs are in RPG/400, with a few in RPG IV. I visited one shop in our state that was using Java on a [iSeries] 270 for Web applications, but its main business was still in RPG.

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Editors: Howard Arner, Joe Hertvik, Ted Holt, David Morris,
Shannon O'Donnell
Managing Editor: Shannon Pastore
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