RDi’s Application Diagram tool has some features that developers may find very useful, but initially finding your way around with the tool isn’t always easy. For that matter, many developers have never even noticed that the feature exists. So in this tip, I’ll take a look at how to get started using the Application Diagram.

If you ever used CODE (a.k.a., CODE/400) in the past, you may be familiar with a feature of that pre-RSE toolset called Navigator. I didn’t use Navigator very often, but when I needed it, it saved me a lot of time. The basic idea of

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We are moving from green screen to PC GUI screens and have come across a need to have the “reverse” of returning a result set. We need to be able to pass a stored procedure of one or more rows (i.e., a result set) in a single call. We could have a single table, but more than one user will be sending data at the same time. It’s a heavily used green screen that we will be replacing. The green screen itself is an input capable sub-file. It

Let’s change it up a bit this week. First, I’m initiating the Admin Alert Great CBU Survey where I’m asking to collect information from users and vendors who work with Capacity BackUp (CBU) systems. Then I’ll follow-up on and add a little more information to some previous articles I posted. That’s a lot of information to cover in 1,200 words or less, so let’s get started.

Chapter 1: The Great CBU Survey

After reading Part 1 and Part 2 of my columns on performing live CBU switch tests on a System i box, reader Don K emailed me the following