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My I - .NET
January 19, 2009
Editor: Craig Pelkie
Issue 46
From the Editor
Craig Pelkie

Stuck trying to move a lot of data up to your IBM i? Don't spend a lot of time trying to invent complicated solutions with lots of programming; check out how to use free tools to create a high-performance upload solution. Stuck when your file is full and won't let you add more data? Check out our "basics" article about two important IBM i file properties that you need to know about.

-Craig Pelkie

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My i-.NET Features
Beam Me Up!
by Craig Pelkie

Having only ever watched about 5 minutes of Star Trek, the phrase "beam me up" is the only data point about the show that I'm aware of. In this article, the "beaming" applies to data that is not currently on your IBM i but that you desperately want to get into the system. About the time Star Trek was originally aired, beaming data into your system was done with punched cards, or the new-fangled 8" floppy disks (I recently had to explain to somebody that the term "floppy disk" originated with 8" disks, which were, indeed, floppy). If you were lucky, you worked in a shop where beaming data into the system might have involved the majestic 5251 twinax terminal.


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File Size Stuck
by Craig Pelkie

Chana, a C# developer, sent me the following message:

"We are using iSeries ODBC driver to connect to AS400 files and write/delete some data to it. The issue is that when I use DELETE FROM MYFILE command, rows deleted, but size of the file stays the same as previous to delete. That's why this file continues to grow constantly and finally (as we suspect) causing problems inserting data to it. Can you help me with this?"


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From My i - .NET

Feb 24 -- Introduction to Microsoft .NET Programming for System i Applications
Learn about the Microsoft development environment with practical examples of how to use Microsoft .NET technologies to develop iSeries/System i applications.

Jan 28 -- HTML Forms, JavaScript and AJAX for RPG Programmers
Learn how to incorporate AJAX techniques into web forms that work with your IBM I and see how you can use JavaScript to perform field-level edits, display values from database files and beyond.

Jan 28 -- Java Techniques for IBM i Application Modernization
Learn how to greatly increase the usefulness of IBM i applications by providing needed features for modern business requirements using RPG as a business applications language and Java as a provider of server-side services.



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