Searching Message Text

June 26, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

I read your article on how to search message text in the June 14 Midrange Guru, OS/4010 Edition.

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Just visit our Web site, click on ‘downloads’ on the home page, and follow the instructions from there.

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Connection Pooling with Tomcat

June 26, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, David:

First of all, let me thank you for a very good article in the February 14 issue of Midrange Guru, OS/400 Edition (see “Installing and Configuring Tomcat on iSeries“). Your article helped me to understand quite a few things.

I would like to ask you a question about the following statement you made: “Tomcat does provide a mechanism to pool connections….” Could you please explain what that mechanism is and how it could be accessed?

At my workplace, we installed Tomcat and are trying to begin development. We have to deal with AS/400 databases,

Service Program Catch-22

June 26, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

We have stumbled upon a situation that we do not know how to resolve. We are trying to organize our RPG subprocedures by functional area. For example, all of our string-handling subprocedures go into one service program, while all of our date-handling subprocedures go into another. Other types of subprocedures go into other service programs.

There are two service programs that reference each other. It’s as if a string-handling subprocedure uses a date-handling routine, while a date-handling routine uses a string-handling subprocedure. (That’s not the real situation, but I’ll use it as an illustration.)

The problem is that