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What skills should an RPG programmer have besides knowledge of basic RPG?
 Written by Jim Staton
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview candidates for a programming position at our company. I had just lost an excellent employee due to personal reasons, and I needed an additional person to develop and maintain the code on our iSeries. We have a small group of five iSeries programmers, four of whom spend most of their time developing and maintaining RPG code and are part of our total IT staff. The fifth develops programs for the iSeries as well as Windows and Linux servers, but in PHP and Java. As I looked through resumes and thought about the skills I needed in our company, I reflected on how much has changed in programming for IBM midrange systems since the early days of the AS/400 and what I now expect a programmer to know.
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All you need is the User Function Registration APIs.
 Written by Bruce Vining
Last month, in "Accessing a Command Line," we looked at how the Retrieve User Information (QSYRUSRI) API could be used to control access to a specific function with an application program. The function we were controlling was access to a command line window, displayed using the Display Command Line Window (QUSCMDLN) API, by way of command key 9. The application determined whether or not command key 9 should be enabled, based on the user class (USRCLS) attribute of the user profile currently running the application program. In this article, we will look at a more flexible approach to managing user access to an application program function. For demonstration purposes, the application function being managed will continue to be the ability to access a command line window (using QUSCMDLN).
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A Webcast takes on all challengers, asserting that the technology works elegantly to modernize source-code available applications while saving time and requiring no programming.
 Written by Chris Smith
There has been an air of mystery and, thus, skepticism surrounding RPG Open Access since IBM introduced it in April 2010 with the release of IBM i 7.1. The program, officially known as Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, was perceived as exotic and incomplete since it relied upon users or ISVs to write handlers to make it work, rather than providing a complete solution to, what might be called, GUI envy!
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GS1 US and 1SYNC have made remarkable progress, and much more is yet to come.
 Written by Jeff Holzman
This article provides an update on the status of GS1 standards-based initiatives from January 2011 to February 2012 and also looks at plans for the coming year. Special attention is given to the broadening focus of 1SYNC, which is now not only the world's leading Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) certified data pool, but also a leader in the area of Product Data Management. In line with this shift, I note the important improvement of GS1 US's capabilities in helping industries and enterprises benefit from the real world implementation of standards.
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Standard FTP can put an organization's data at risk, given the sophistication of today's cyber attacks. Are you willing to let your company take that risk?
 Written by Mary Rose Roberts
Editor's Note: This article is a review of the Webcast "Beyond FTP: Securing and Automating File Transfers" available to view free from the MC Press Webcast Center.
Today's networks are vulnerable to sophisticated cyber attacks, which means standard FTP encryption tools used by IT professionals often fail to safeguard the transmission of sensitive corporate data.
Cyber criminals continue to attack companies, using sniffer tools, non-switch shared hubs, and unsecured wireless networks to access data.
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INDUSTRY NEWS >>
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Jon Paris and Susan Gantner head up the all-star team of IBM i speakers presenting the latest technical material during a multi-track day of 35 training sessions.
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Randy Dufault takes over from Pete Massiello as president of the organization, while newcomer Justin Porter takes a seat on the board.
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Joy Cone selects IBM i paperless Accounts Payable solution to reduce paper, increase productivity.
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New application runs extremely fast while ensuring reliable archiving, rapid retrieval, packaging, and distribution of business information, documents, and reports from spool files.
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Power Systems exec notes that venerable and stable OS is included in latest IBM PureSystems offerings.
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Users will be trained on IBM i operations, data access, and security at Minneapolis event.
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Too many systems continue to possess vulnerabilities to precious data, study shows.
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IBM is introducing new offerings to make it easier for business partners and clients to create "patterns of expertise," a new software capability first introduced as part of IBM's PureSystems family of expert integrated systems. These patterns are designed to radically streamline the set-up and management of hardware and software resources.
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