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In the first part of this series I introduced you to the basics of using RPG’s XML-INTO op-code. In that tip I showed how the provision of a count provided by RPG in the PSDS can be used to determine how many of a repeating element were processed.

However, as I noted at the time, this can only be used when handling a repeating outer element. But what if there is a repeating element within each of those outer elements? In this second part of the series we

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On August 4, 2015, I asserted that the proper residence of a library list is a job description. Talk is cheap. Now it’s time for me to put my money where my mouth is. I have a utility that gives me easy access to the library lists in job descriptions. I wrote this utility last year, and now I use it daily with great results. Today I make that utility freely available for you to use in your shop.

If I were to follow IBM’s naming convention, I

In a world of hackers, every data asset is vulnerable to theft or tampering. Protecting data can be costly, yet being hacked is even costlier. Enter IBM‘s row and column access control. RCAC is a big deal as businesses are looking for effective tools to control security, in particular, database security.

RCAC allows database security administrators to tighten the reigns on who can view data in the database. Even better, many of these security measures can be implemented without changing applications. Versions of DB2, Postgre SQL, Oracle, SQL Server (currently in preview with Azure v12 and SQL Server 2016),