RPG/400 Programming on the AS/400

RPG/400 Programming on the AS/400, 1/e

Stanley E. Myers
Candice E. Myers

Published March, 1995 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

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Summary

This book is a complete text dedicated to the RPG/400 programming language and the AS/400 environment.

Features

discusses procedures to externally process the AS/400 database and traditional RPG coding methods.
demonstrates how to enter the source code, compile, debug, and load physical files early on.
includes over seventy complete RPG/400 compiled programs, many documented with a line-by-line explanation of the statements.
more than 800 figures are included in the text to illustrate the syntax and logic of RPG/400 programs, files, and subfiles.
emphasizes the importance of data and its effect on program execution and final results.
addresses other important AS/400 software with separate appendices for SEU, PDM, DFU, SDA.

Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary, Questions, and Programming Assignments.)

1. The AS/400 Environment.
2. Physical Files.
3. Introduction to RPG/400 Programming.
4. Report Headings and Editing.
5. RPG/400 Calculations (Arithmetic Functions).
6. RPG/400 Structured Operations for Decision Making, Branching, and Looping Control.
7. Excpt Operation, Internal Subroutines, and Calling Programs.
8. Control Level Break Processing.
9. Data Structures and Data Areas.
10. Table Processing.
11. Array Processing.
12. Data Validation (Batch Mode).
13. Physical File Maintenance (Batch Mode).
14. Display Files.
15. Interactive Processing.
16. Logical Files.
17. Subfiles.
18. Printer Files.
19. Control Language Programming.
20. Sort and Open Query File.
21. Program Debugging.
Appendices A-D.