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SEU Exit Program in ILE RPG

SEU Exit Program in ILE RPG

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I know, I know. No one uses SEU anymore. Well I do. This SEU exit program handles my @@ and @@@ line commands. It fixes the allocation for specific varying character fields. So something like this: gets converted to this: To invoke it put @@ on a line and press enter. To update a block of code use @@@. Unfortunately using the block command updates the source change date on the line even if the code on that line isn’t…

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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.