Join Bob Cozzi in March for a Seminar on Modernizing
Your RPG Skills
Most RPG programmers want to know how to access the IFS, most want to
know
the best practices when using free-format, most want to know how to open
and
process an XML file in RPG IV.
For just $199 you can be that kind of programmer. Attend Bob Cozzi's
1-day
seminar "Modernizing RPG IV Programming Skills".
Learn more here...
Why avoid modernizing your programming staff? Why avoid updating your
own
skill set? Why spend $1000+ for a multi-day conference when you get
everything
you need for $199?
Do yourself a favor, send your entire programming staff to this
seminar. But
hurry, its just a few weeks away, and space is limited at each location.
We've scheduled the following two cities
exclusively:
- Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona - March 2, 2010
- ChicagoLand (Lombard) - March 16, 2010
More details are listed below or visit the Seminar website
www.RPGWorld.com/academy
to
register today.
This is a power-packed Seminar where RPG Programmers receive the kind
of training they
need to compete in today's world. Taught by the guy that wrote the book
on RPG
and RPG IV, Bob Cozzi.
Registration Fee: $199 if you
register before
March 1st ($299 thereafter)
- 8:00 to 9:15 Free Format -- Ground Breaking Techniques You Can Use
Today
- 9:45 to 11:00 Free Format How-To Techniques for everyday
use
- 11:00 to 12:15 Advanced RPG IV Free Format Coding with
Subprocedures and
APIs
- 1:00 to 2:15 Using the IFS within RPG IV and free-format
- 2:30 to 3:45 Embedded SQL in Free Format for Database I/O
- 4:00 to 5:00 Question and Answer Working Group
Seminar Description
This seminar will be customized to the audience level, as necessary.
However,
we find that most people like the concise, accurate, real-world skill
set
introduced to them.
Free Format - Ground Breaking Techniques You Can Use
Today
Moving to Free-format RPG IV can be an
interesting experience. Whether you've
never coded it before, written a routine or two or have been writing
free-format
for years, there are always issues when migrating legacy code. In this
session,
but illustrates the Free-Format syntax rules, compares existing
fixed-format to
free-format, and gives you tips about how to convert code such as Date
arithmetic, normal math, and even those Indicatory results to free
format. In
addition an overall coding style and structure are recommended
that can be
taken back and shared with the rest of the programming staff.
Free Format How-To Techniques for Everyday Use
Most fixed-format RPG IV converts handily
to free-format. But what do you
when you run into a MOVE Numeric-to-Character opcode? What about the
other way
round? How are these types of coding issues handled in free-format? Bob
Cozzi
has been doing this a long time. He's solved just about every issue
that's come
up with simple, easy to follow alternatives. Some are direct but not
obvious,
some require a user-written subprocedure (provided in the seminar
handout), and
some require an understanding of how things work. Don't worry, its all
in there,
and Cozzi makes it look easy.
Advanced RPG IV Free-format Coding with Subprocedures and
APIs
In this Modern RPG world, simply reading
from a database and writing to a
subfile isn't the only game in town. In this session Cozzi shows you how
to
leverage tools that you already own but may not know about. Including
how to
incorporate them into your own toolbox for easy access by everyone.
Accessing C,
MI and system APIs is presented along with wrapping things in
user-written
subprocedures to help make them as easy to use as possible.
Using the IFS with RPG IV Free-Format
Why let those PC hacks have all the fun.
Why not read PC-files in RPG and
processing them all in one location--the most reliable place on
Earth--your
System i. In this session, Cozzi shows you how to set up a /COPY that
allows you
to open, reading, write, and close IFS files as easily as normal
Database files.
Oh yes, it can be done, and it can be very easy. Need to know how to
list the
files in an IFS directory, then open each one of those files and read
their XML
data into RPG IV and then write it to a database file? You will know how
to do
this after attending this session.
Embedded SQL in Free-Format
Cozzi never enjoyed using embedded SQL in
fixed-format RPG. But embedded SQL
in free-format RPG is, well... sexy. In this session, Cozzi shows you
how cool
it is to code embedded SQL in free-format, so much so that you may
abandon
regular File Specs forever.
Question and Answer Work Group
This is your time to ask Bob Cozzi
questions about free-format RPG IV and
related technologies. From a refresher on who to declare and use return
values
correctly, to using RDi over SEU, to that unique free-format embedded
SQL syntax
you're unsure about, or even an XML parsing question. This is your time
to find
out what you never knew you never knew.
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