Note: Source code for RPG program CustListR can be downloaded here.

In my article Publish Result Sets Using Web Services and IWS, I demonstrated how to write an RPG program that can return a result set (i.e., multiple rows of data) to a Web service client using an Integrated Web Services (IWS) server instance.

The benefit of using RPG to publish data as a Web service is that any number of clients can consume the Web service, regardless of OS platform or language. This potentially makes your i data and business logic accessible from anywhere! This tip will

A physical file contains a nine-byte character acknowledgement number field that consists of a single letter followed by eight digits. I would like to change this field to two fields: a one-byte character and an eight-byte numeric field so that I could join the file to other files that have only the eight-digit numeric value. I realize that I could do a conversion to redefine the field, but that would require extensive changes to our applications. Is there an easier method to redefine the field, such as in a logical file?

–David

You probably don’t have to redefine the field,

Can I use FTP to back-up i5/OS libraries to a Unix server? Management wants to save money by not purchasing an LTO 4 tape library. Instead, they want to use Unix boxes to store i5/OS back-ups, and later send the data to tape. I’ve tried FTPing files between i5/OS and UNIX, but I can’t read the data when it’s transferred back. How do I approach this?

–Charlene

The answers to your questions are “yes” and “no”. Yes, you should be able to easily back-up and save production libraries to a Unix box. No, automated back-up to a Unix box may