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RPG IV Modernization Seminar with Bob Cozzi
Updated: 08 Feb 2010 - 209 days ago
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RPG IV Modernization Seminar with Bob Cozzi

RPG Modernization Seminar - with Bob Cozzi

The Modern RPG Skills You Need:

  • Parse XML Files in RPG
  • Reading ASCII Files and directories off the IFS
  • Using Free-format RPG effectively
  • Proper use of Embedded SQL in free-format RPG

From the Seminar You Want

"Modernizing RPG IV Programming Skills". Learn more here...

At just $199 anyone can be a great RPG IV programmer. Attend Bob Cozzi's 1-day seminar next month (March 2010) and become one yourself. Learn more...

Why spend $1000+ for a multi-day conference when you get everything you need for $199 in a single day?

Do yourself a favor, send your entire programming staff to the Modernizing RPG IV seminar. But hurry, it is only a few weeks away and space is limited. We've scheduled the following two cities exclusively:

Locations

  • 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 learn more and to register.

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 books on RPG and RPG IV: Bob Cozzi.

  • $199 if you register before March 1st ($299 thereafter)

Seminar Agenda

  • 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

Session Abstracts

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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