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Free e-commerce security guide http://search400.com/r/0,,14647,00.htm?verisign ============================================================== Essential explanations, tools and code for the iSeries programmer. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f9,00.html ============================================================== 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: -- Utility helps you get information about logical files faster, easier 1. Answers to Other Technical Questions: - Hey! You've got your test file in my production library - Logical files in different library than physical files - Recreate logical files without the source code - The secret to saving only source files 2. Important Announcements and Links - Tips Contest: May winners announced - Search400.com Quiz: History of the iSeries - May 2003: Search400.com Month in Review - Advice: Programmer Discussion Forum _________________________________________________________________ ************ Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust ********* FREE E-COMMERCE SECURITY GUIDE Is your e-business built on a strong, secure foundation? Find out with VeriSign's FREE White Paper, "Building an e-commerce trust infrastructure." Learn how to authenticate your site to customers, secure your Web servers with 128-Bit SSL encryption, and accept secure payments online. Click here: http://search400.com/r/0,,14647,00.htm?verisign ================================================================== Today's Featured Tip ================================================================== UTILITY HELPS YOU GET INFORMATION ABOUT LOGICAL FILES FASTER, EASIER by Tim Granatir Are you building a new program and looking for particular logical files? You could use one of the utilities already out there, but Search400.com expert Tim Granatir has one that's even better. With it you can just look at the source member of the object or a logical file and get information about that file immediately. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci903980,00.html?Offer=06click ================================================================== Answers to Other Programmer Questions ================================================================== HEY! YOU'VE GOT YOUR TEST FILE IN MY PRODUCTION LIBRARY Search400.com expert Tim Granatir gives you three utilities to eliminate problems you might have with logical files when you have a test system and production system on the same box. http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci858379,00.html?Offer=06click LOGICAL FILES IN DIFFERENT LIBRARY THAN PHYSICAL FILES Search400.com member Don Tully provides a simple way to list logical files when the logical is in a different library than its associated physical file. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci862570,00.html?Offer=06click RECREATE LOGICAL FILES WITHOUT THE SOURCE CODE What do you do if your logical files get corrupted and you don't have the source for those logical files to rebuild them? Site expert Tim Granatir has a solution. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid479224_tax285217,00.html?Offer=06click THE SECRET TO SAVING ONLY SOURCE FILES A Search400.com member asked our site experts for advice saving only source files. Expert Tim Granatir not only provides a way to do that in this tip, but he also points out several interesting features in the program that apply to other applications. Some of those features include use of the system file QADBXREF and use of the FROMRCD parameter on the CPYF command. Read how you can use them to save and locate source files, as well as speed up processing time. http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci828666,00.html?Offer=06click ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MAY WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400.com tips contest You've been patient all month, and the results are finally in... The top winner for Search400.com's Tips Contest for May is Richard Matthews. Richard won a $50 Amazon gift certificate and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "Commands to display/change the ASP threshold" http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci900084,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: David Ford, Walter Yalung and Murtuza Jadli. View all winning tips in Search400.com's Hall of Fame: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid3_prz826588_cts826578,00.html NEW CONTEST FOR JUNE: This month we're giving away a hand-held color TV. Enjoy the brilliant clarity of a TFT-LCD screen on the world's smallest TV. This color TV features a 2.5-inch LCD screen that uses the same innovative technology as the ultra-sharp monitors on new laptops. Submit a winning tip and take a chance at winning this awesome TV. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsSubmit/1,289485,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HISTORY OF THE ISERIES | Search400.com Quiz June marks the 15th anniversary of the AS/400 (now called the iSeries), so we thought we'd take a look back and see how it's changed over the years. How much do you know about the iSeries and its early beginnings? Take our quiz and find out. >> TEST your smarts: http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci901105,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SEARCH400.COM MONTH IN REVIEW | May 2003 Did April's showers bring you any May flowers? Well, we don't have any flowers per se, but we enjoyed a great crop of technical tips, news stories, featured topics and more. >> CLICK here for the review: http://www.search400.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci903756,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- DISCUSSION FORUM | Interact with other programmers Are you an iSeries programmer with questions? 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