RPG IV Programming

Course:  RPG4
Duration:  5 Days
Level:  II
Course Summary

This course will teach the participants the basics of RPG IV coding, sufficient to enable them to write and maintain RPG IV programs.

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Topics Covered In This Course

A brief history

Introduction

Coding RPG

Structured Operation Codes

Indicators and BIFs

Using Files in RPG

Interactive Debug

More Features and Screen Handling

More File Handling

Legacy RPG

Advanced Data Declarations

  • Other Data Types
  • Arrays
  • Data Structures
  • Qualified Data Structures
  • Data Structure Arrays
  • Data Areas
  • Multiple Occurrence Data Structures
  • Reserved values

More Operation Codes

Subroutines & Modular Design

Call with Prototype

Subfiles

Date and Time Manipulation

Error Handling

More BIFs

Advanced Subfiles

What You Can Expect

On completion of the course, participants should be able to code and debug simple RPG IV programs, both interactive and batch. Specifically the student will understand:

  • How data is stored and manipulated by RPG
  • RPG IV....coding structure, indicators, operation codes, etc.
  • Record retrieval operations
  • Workstation and printer file handling
  • Arrays
  • Program calling, prototyping and parameter passing
  • Structured programming techniques
  • Data structures and data areas
  • Data structure arrays
  • Using Dates, times and timestamps
  • Subfiles
  • Error Handling
  • Debugging
Who Should Take This Course

Programmers responsible for writing and/or maintaining RPG IV code.

Recommended Prerequisites

Before taking this course, a student should:

  • Have a basic knowledge of the development environment (WDSC/ RSE/Rdi or PDM/SEU) available through for Application Developers and/orWDSC/RSE/RDi for Programmers
  • Know about the concepts of externally described files (i. e. DDS or SQL)available through for Application Developers
  • Be familiar with the system facilities (menus, CL commands, jobs, etc)available through for Application Developers
  • Have a basic knowledge of programming (sequence, loops, subroutines etc.)
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