1. Time to Say "So Long"

Bob is moving on, and he thanks you, his loyal readers, for all of your support.

2. Ask Not What You Can Do for RPG but What RPG Can Do for You!

Are you aware of all the wonderful capabilities of the RPG language?

3. COMMON in High Gear

As I return to the user group I first joined in 1980, I reflect on days gone by and consider the future of our beloved box.

4. Time for More RPG IV Enhancements?

What's the best way for IBM to decide which features to add to RPG IV? Could it be RFC?

5. Moving to Free-Format in RPG IV via WDSC

It's not perfect, but it's certainly not bad!

6. Open New Doors

Maybe you'll stay employed if you take the initiative to learn about the industry you're in.

7. Best of Cozzi: Find and Replace

Is a Find/Replace procedure on your wish list?

8. Best of Cozzi: Qualified Data Structures

Use the same subfield name in more than one data structure.

9. WDSC 7.0 Arrives

What's new and different?

10. WDSC Advanced Edition

It's the $3,480 option you want but can't have.

11. i5/OS, OS/400, and Daylight Saving Time (DST)

Remember to turn your clocks forward Sunday morning.

12. Min and Max

Where are these i5/OS built-in functions?

13. Query 400 in 2007?

Is it time for a new Query for System i5?

14. The Lost Art of Start Copy Screen (STRCPYSCN)

View and document a user's session remotely.

15. Is It "System i," "i5," "System i5," or "iSeries"?

Don't tell me we're playing that name game again.

16. Error-Checking C APIs

Retrieving the error message text isn't too complex.

17. RPG IV Is Alive and Well and Living in Your iSeries

Don't buy all that "next release" hype.

18. Setting the CLASSPATH for RPG IV Calling Java

CLASSPATH is an environment variable that Java uses as its version of the library list.

19. New Year's Resolutions for RPG IV Programmers

Here's a list of the seven things that I think everyone should strive to achieve when programming RPG IV.

20. Free RPG IV Online Community Forming

Get answers to your RPG questions.

21. Debugging RPG III and RPG IV

Despite other options, lots of people still like to use the green-screen source-level ILE debugger.

22. RPG World Heads for Vegas

Join me for this popular conference for iSeries and System i developers.

23. Don't Mix Override Metaphors

A subtle but important override feature may be missing.

24. Two CL Commands You Should Know

Recently, two CL commands, WRKLICINF and WRKENVVAR, have become quite useful.

25. The iSeries: How Uncool Is That?

If we want to attract the younger generation, we need to allow the iSeries to do the cool things it's capable of.

26. High School-Level Math in RPG IV

Are you aware of the C runtime math library and the i5/OS math APIs?

27. What's Your Partition ID?

New APIs make partition access with MI pass.

28. Is RPG IV Consistent for You?

V4R5, V5R2, V5R5 what features you have depends on what release level you're on.

29. Subprocedure Basics

RPG programmers still don't quite understand subprocedures.

30. Announcing iSeriesTV

Check out Cozzi's new Web site.

31. Retrieve File Description

Try an old technique on a new command.

32. Does Anybody Still Use CL?

New features keep coming to this seemingly dead language.

33. Sending a Program Message in RPG

The solution is the Call-Stack Entry parameter of the QMHSNDPM API.

34. %XFOOT with %LEN

When attempting to calculate the number of bytes of storage an array occupies, the %SIZE built-in function may be used. Include the second parameter *ALL to get the number of bytes of memory the entire array occupies. But what about determinin

35. When the LIKE Keyword Misbehaves

Beware of automatic zoned to packed conversion.

36. Day of Week Revisited

I can write that routine in one line of code!

37. Data Structure Templates

Use templates to easily create new data structures.

38. Retrieve the Function Key Used on a Display File

Forget response indicators; they're so pass.

39. Command Prompting 201

Use list and qualified parameters with command definitions.

40. iSockets Gets Google

Users ask, users get!

41. IBM Is Having a Sale!

Wait till you see how easy it's become to buy a System i.

42. It's Time to Get out of the Stone Age

It's IT managers who are the problem, not programmers.

43. Tips and Techniques: EXTFILE and EXTMBR

Specify the name of the file, library, and member to be opened at runtime.

44. Command Prompting 101

Calling programs with parameters gets easier.

45. Is It Time for Free-Format?

I'm beginning to be willing to give it more of a chance.

46. Time Is Running Out

Convert MI time to Z data type.

47. XML Output Coming to RPG IV

Still, there's that pesky issue of escaping the XML.

48. Simplified RC4 or AES Encryption

Hide your data from prying eyes.

49. Data Structure Templates

You will never declare a data structure directly again.

50. If You Can Read This...

it's not encrypted.