=============================================================== SEARCH400.COM | Programmer Tip Oct. 24, 2001
Essential explanations, tools and code for the iSeries programmer. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f9,00.html =============================================================== =============================================================== SPONSOR: Advanced Systems Concepts (ASC) Meet ALL your iSeries data access needs with 1 product -- SEQUEL. With query and reporting capabilities second to none, SEQUEL also includes e-Mail, FTP, DB2-to-PC file downloads, runtime prompts for end users, and a powerful OLAP Business Intelligence system. Use Web, Windows or Host interfaces. Call (847) 605-1311 or visit http://www.ASC-iSeries.com/sequel.htm for a FREE trial! =============================================================== In today's technical advice roundup you'll find tips, expert answers and input from your peers to the following iSeries programmer questions and concerns: Today's Featured Programmer Tip: -- Determining field name and cursor position Answers to Other Technical Questions: 1. Refresh your display 2. A table that shows possible CPF error messages 3. Reading files with Java on the OS/400 4. What should I name that field? Important Announcements and Links 1. The iSeries and APIs 2. Tips Contest: September winners announced 3. This week's featured book =============================================================== Today's Featured Tip =============================================================== Determining field name and cursor position When you're swamped trying to keep up with all that's thrown at you, even simple tips can make your job easier. Here site expert Tim Granatir gives you three techniques -- and a sample program -- to help you out. The program demonstrates how you can do the following: * Get the cursor location at the time the user hits enter. * Get the format and the field name that the user was at when enter was pressed. * Override the cursor positioning. You can use these techniques for several things, but the main ones are F4 prompting and developing a customized help system. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci777252,00.html =============================================================== Answers to Other Technical Questions =============================================================== 1. Refresh your display This tip teaches you a quick way to refresh your display file automatically without the input of a user. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci764937,00.html 2. A table that shows possible CPF error messages This user writes, "Is there a table that can be downloaded that shows each of the possible CPF error messages that can be generated for any CL command?" Read this Q&A to see what advice expert Tim Granatir gave. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid398060_tax285217,00.html 3. Reading files with Java on the OS/400 The writer of this question wanted to read index sequential files using Java on an AS/400 running OS/400 4.5 with the S36 environment option enabled. If you have experience in this, would you please respond to help a fellow member? http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/563!viewtype=convdate&skip=&expand= 4. What should I name that field? One user writes, "I would like to develop a minimal set of requirements for variable naming conventions. To put it in simple words, if we are to declare a variable, what should the properties that the name of the variable possess?" Check out what site expert John Kohan had to say. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid418337_tax285217,00.html ============================================================= What other programming issues do you have and/or need to be addressed? Talk to us and other members of search400: * Submit your technical questions to our programmer experts: http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax285217,00.html * Talk to other users about programming issues in our discussion forum: http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee84636 * Send your iSeries programming concerns directly to our site editor, Michelle Davidson, at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for feedback or suggestions. ____________________________________________________________________ :::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE ISERIES AND APIS | Live Expert Q&A Who: Doug Pence, vice president, CPU Medical Management Systems, and Ron Hawkins, Manager of R & D, CPU Medical Management Systems, authors of the book, iSeries and AS/400 APIs at Work When: Oct. 30, 2001 at 1:00pm EST (18:00 GMT) Join us and learn how to use APIs to solve almost any business problem. Programmers with all levels of expertise will benefit from this Live Expert Q&A session. >> CLICK here Tuesday to log on ... http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEPTEMBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400 tips contest Drum roll please ... The top winner for search400's Tips Contest for September is Philip Howells. Philip won a pair of Motorola two-way radios and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "AUTOFTP reduces security exposure found in traditional FTP transfers." http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci770308,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Doug Rezanka, Ray Welgosh and Eric Bouchard. NEW CONTEST FOR OCTOBER: This month we're giving away a virtual speed baseball. Find out if you're ready for the big leagues when you toss this regulation size baseball with motion sensor. Send in your tip -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz772410_cts772408,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THIS WEEK'S FEATURED BOOK | search400 Bookstore RPG IV at Work Authors: Doug Pence and Ron Hawkins This book offers in-depth, practical coverage of basic subjects -- such as data structures, string handling, and subfiles -- and also tackles the more intricate subject areas, such as APIs, prototyping, and journaling as a debugging tool. It covers built-in functions (BIFs), data types, and subprocedures. http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog_name=Books&category_name=&product_id=1583470239&partner_id=55 ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: SEARCH400 CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: MICHELLE DAVIDSON, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Send us your story ideas and best practices. ____________________________________________________________________ DEBRA TART, Assistant Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your tips and Best Web Links. ____________________________________________________________________ JACK PICKELL, News Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your product announcements and poll ideas. ____________________________________________________________________ GABRIELLE DERUSSY (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. ____________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ :::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER ::::::::::::::::::::: Created by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2001, All Rights Reserved. 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