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Break the *PRTF 378 Character Limit with a Custom *WSCST

Break the *PRTF 378 Character Limit with a Custom *WSCST

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I had a situation where I was printing a PDF417 barcode to a SATO printer. The data for the barcode contained a name, an address, and other information and together it was longer than 378 characters. 378 is the maximum record length for a printer file. OS/400 printing services will insert a carriage return/linefeed (x’0D’/x’0A’) when 378 is reached. This x’0D’/x’0A’ skewed the PDF417 data. What I needed was a continuous stream of data. Changing the behavior of a printer…

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Get Job Date in RPGLE

Get Job Date in RPGLE

The %date() built-in function, by itself, will return the System date. The following will return the Job date:

*CALLER and System i Stored Procedures

*CALLER and System i Stored Procedures

Activation groups may be the most important concept to understand when creating *PGM and *SRVPGM objects on the System i (AS/400). Get this wrong and you will be chasing your tail for hours trying to figure out why data being returned to you is not what you were expecting.