RPG ILE Basic Course

The RPG ILE programming language basic course provides the student with the basic knowledge necessary to create programs in RPG IV and/or free format (FREE), in IBM SystemS I (AS/400).

Course duration:

The basic course lasts for 40h in site and 40h of workshops.

The basic course lasts for 40h in site and 40h of workshops.

• It’s important to have basic programming skills.
• Must have completed the IBMi Introductory Course or know about the basic command handling of IBMi equipment (AS/400) and, have basic knowledge of how to create Physical and Logical files on the study platform.

 

¿What will we learn in this course?

• Understanding the environment of the Report Layout Utility (RLU) Tool.
• What is a Printer File?
• Create Records in a Printer File
• Types of fields that can be created in a printer file
• Create fields in the form file
• Give attributes to the different fields
• Indicator handling in RLU.
• Copy individual fields
• Copy field blocks.
• Move individual fields
• Move field blocks.
• Delete individual fields
• Delete field blocks.
• File-level keywords.
• Record-level keywords.
• Compile printer files.
• Understanding the environment of the SEU Tool (Source Editor)
• Understanding the basics of programming in RPG IV and Full Free
• Options control specifications.
• File declaration specifications.
• Types of variables in RPG.
• Declaring variables in the program.
• Concept of data structures in RPG.
• Data structure declarations (Data Areas, File Information, Program Statuses, and Indicator Data Structure).
• Data structures (Do while, Select, Until, For)
• Compilation-time, precompilation, and run-time tables.

. Compiling RPG programs.

. Definition and handling of DTAARA in RPG Programs

. Using built-in RPG programming language features.

. Built-in functions for character string handling, date, and number field editing.

. Etc.