The MC Press Desktop Encyclopedia of Tips, Techniques, and Programming Practices for iSeries and AS/400

Now it's easier than ever to implement the best possible solutions for hundreds of tasks and challenges on the iSeries and AS/400. This highly readable, comprehensive new reference, compiled by IBM midrange authorities Ted Holt and Shannon O'Donnell, includes more than 900 entries by more than 300 experts from around the world. These entries address practically every area of your job: RPG, CL, operations, security, database, TCP/IP, and more. You'll find answers to questions about day-to-day programming and operations tasks, as well as techniques for accomplishing rare challenges. If you do anything at all on the iSeries or the AS/400, you will find this book and companion CD-ROM to be the most helpful reference you own.

Hundreds of entries that answer questions on:
   • Data handling (32 entries)xxx
   • Subfiles (18 entries)
   • Date and time (46 entries)
   • Debugging (14 entries)
   • File handling (34 entries)
   • Messaging (33 entries)
   • Performance (28 entries)
   • Printing (15 entries)
   • SEU (16 entries)
   • Sorting and sequencing (15 entries)
   • Plus much more, including 48 ready-to-install utilities
   • last line delete



Ted Holt has been working in the information technology industry since 1981, primarily with IBM midrange computers. His industry experience includes the fields of manufacturing, healthcare, education, retail, and wholesale. He holds a master's degree in computer science and has taught in community colleges, universities, and vocational/technical schools.

Shannon has held a variety of positions, most of them as a consultant, in dozens of industries, gaining experience that gives him insight into multiple aspects of how the System i is used in the real world.

More About the Authors:

Ted Holt
Shannon O'Donnell