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From the Editor:
Things are tough all over |
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Featured Topic:
RPG programming tips & tricks |
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Expert Technical Advice:
* Featured expert: Tim Granatir, application development
* Receiving SMTP mail into a program
* Little-known feature of the CPYFRMIMPF command
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Site Highlights:
* New Best Web Links category: Book excerpts
* Visit our new iSeries glossary
* What keeps you awake at night? |
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From the Editor: |
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by Michelle Davidson, site editor
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Things are tough all over
You can't pick up a newspaper without feeling overwhelmed by the dire straits we're in. Internationally, there's a heightened alert for terrorism attacks, a possible war with Iraq and issues with North Korea's nuclear plans. In the U.S., the economy doesn't show any signs of recovering: Sales remain disappointing, job layoffs continue, salary increases on average are minimal, and the stock market continues its struggle to recover.
The only relief from the stress might come on the funny pages. At least there you can laugh at Dilbert, knowing that his woes are fictional.
For us in the real world, however, economic problems often translate into tough times at work -- budget cuts, less staff, and extra work on your part to fill the gap. Belts are being tightened all around. You only hope that you don't get squeezed too tightly.
I'm wondering how the economy is affecting you professionally. Has your budget been cut? Projects put on hold? Upgrades delayed? Are you out of work? Do you think a turnaround is in sight? Send me your comments, and let me know how you're holding up.
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RPG programming tips & tricks
by Debra Tart, assistant editor
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Have a RPG question but don't know where to turn? Are you ready to take your RPG skills to the next level? We're here to help. We've gathered some helpful RPG programming tips and tricks to make your job a little easier.
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Featured expert: Tim Granatir, vice president of Technical Services, Interlink Technologies
Category: Application development
Tim has experience in a range of iSeries subjects, such as application development and systems management. Not only does he answer Ask the Expert questions, but he also helps moderate the Search400 discussion forums, and he writes programmer tips.
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This Week: In the forums
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Receiving SMTP mail into a program
"CGross" asks, "There are lots of articles about setting up SMTP on iSeries and using it to send MIME-type e-mail. We have several applications that can send various types of files using the QtmmSendMail API. But how can we receive SMTP mail by program?" Site expert Tim Granatir and "sauvaje1" offer some help.
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Getting started with WDSc
"Rjs395" needs your help. He's following the steps in SC09-26250-6 (Getting Started with WDSc) and keeps getting a "publishing error -- problems exist in project mappings" when he tries to test his WebFacing in "Testing your application" on P.50. Any ideas to help him run this sample project?
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Leasing space on an iSeries
"Mkant76" needs to find some room on an iSeries to do some development work: nothing that will impact the system, just 100 to 200 objects all within one library. Site expert Tim Granatir suggested a couple companies that will lease space for a fee, but he thinks there's a free time-sharing site. Do you know if there is? |
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| Tip of the Week: |
Little-known feature of the CPYFRMIMPF command
When you're importing delimited data to the iSeries, such as a comma-delimited spreadsheet or data from a Unix or Windows NT system, the CPYFRMIMPF command is a huge timesaver. But even with this command, people still complain about null data, errors or formatting problems. Many are not aware that the CPYFRMIMPF command is also capable of helping with some of those types of problems. People overlook this capability because they don't know the functionality is there, and that's probably because of how the command does prompting. This tip highlights of few of the problem areas this command can help you with. |
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What keeps you awake at night?
Some of the most pressing issues Web developers face include WebFacing, JDBC and Java stored procedures. Site expert Jim Mason offers some help.
Read the top Ask the Expert responses on Web development
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Visit our new iSeries glossary
There are so many iSeries acronyms and terms but so little time to figure them all out. Search400.com can help. We've gathered and defined some of the industry's frequently used terms.
Take a look
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Excerpts from top iSeries books
Now you can browse all our free chapter downloads in one easy place. Go ahead: Try a sample before you head to the bookstore.
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