When you are editing a free-form RPG program or an ILE COBOL source, the RSE LPEX editor has a very nice feature called Content Assist. At first glance, Content Assist seems like a simple helpful feature but there is more to Content Assist than first meets the eye. This tech tip looks at the basic use of Content Assist, using Content Assist with subprocedures, and defining your own Templates for Content Assist.

Basic Use

Enter an operation code, keyword, or BIF followed by Ctrl+Space and the LPEX editor will display a pop-up window containing a list of valid code completions.

My automated tape backup job just stopped working. It was working fine last week, but when I try to run any of the i5/OS Save commands (SAVOBJ, SAVLIB, SAV, etc.), the command fails with a CPF4380 message (“Open attributes not valid in a multithreaded job”). I can manually back up my data, but I can’t use my usual backup routine. What’s going on here and do you have any idea why my automated backup suddenly started failing?

–Jim

In spite of a scary scenario when your backup stops running, this problem is actually very easy to solve. Here’s what I