Here is your guide to mastering hundreds of new APIs available on the iSeries and AS/400 to effectively solve business problems. RPG wizards Doug Pence and Ron Hawkins reveal how to use APIs for everything from extracting information from deep within the recesses of your system to delivering pages to the World Wide Web. Each chapter is full of real business-world examples that you can modify and use in your own environment. In recent years, the business world has realized the impact information systems have on business ...
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Here is your guide to mastering hundreds of new APIs available on the iSeries and AS/400 to effectively solve business problems. RPG wizards Doug Pence and Ron Hawkins reveal how to use APIs for everything from extracting information from deep within the recesses of your system to delivering pages to the World Wide Web. Each chapter is full of real business-world examples that you can modify and use in your own environment. In recent years, the business world has realized the impact information systems have on business effectiveness. As a result, you are now expected to use high-level encryption to store sensitive information, to write interfaces between Microsoft Windows and AS/400 RPG applications, and to integrate your business applications with the Web. This book will show you how you can use APIs to do all of this and more. You will come to realize that there is nothing you cannot do with iSeries and AS/400 APIs if you know where to look. When you have completed this book, you will be able to: Use APIs to write Web pages to the Internet from your iSeries and AS/400 RPG IV programs, process standard list APIs and asynchronous open list APIs, build, populate, and work with user spaces, create dynamic indices with user index APIs, write programs that enable your iSeries and AS/400 to communicate with PCs using Sockets, use APIs to retrieve system values, job information, and job queue information, use APIs with user data queues and remote data queues, handle errors using both the standard error data structure and global variables, use message-handling APIs, use APIs to read and write encrypted passwords, process spooled files with APIs, and use and manage validation lists.
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