RPG Lover's Bundle

Programming in RPG IV
Let authors Jim Buck and Bryan Meyers help you get up to speed on today's RPG IV! Since its original publication this guide has given thousands of professionals a strong foundation in the essentials of business programming using RPG IV. This all-new Fourth Edition is completely reorganized and rewritten to reflect the RPG IV style and techniques used by today’s most capable RPG technicians.

RPG TnT
With RPG TNT: 101 Dynamite Tips ‘n Techniquesi>, author Bob Cozzi provides the solutions to dozens of technical dilemmas, gives you insights into resources formerly available only to a select few, and exposes RPG IV extensions that use his vast knowledge of System i MI instructions—all with easy-to-use wrappers that even the most inexperienced RPG IV programmer can implement. Lift the code right out of the book and into your applications! This book provides a nearly endless supply of must-have solutions and simple yet powerful RPG tips and tools.

Free-Format RPG IV
Author Jim Martin not only teaches rules and syntax, but also explains how this new style of coding has the potential to improve overall programmer productivity--from initial development through maintenance. He methodically covers the "how to" involved in free-format RPG IV, including many style issues, such as named indicators and built-in functions. He also addresses input and output, program flow, data manipulation, and math operations. There is even a chapter on prototyping and APIs.

Functions in Free-Format RPG IV
Here is the ultimate guide to writing RPG IV programs with functions in the free-format style. Let RPG expert and best-selling author Jim Martin show you the way. Want to generate a random number, manipulate a character string, or determine the number of elements in a data structure? There’s a function for that. Jim will even show you how to write your own custom built-in functions (BIFs).