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Make compiling easier for service programs with the use of binding directories.
Written by Tom Snyder
With the end of the year comes time to close out my series of articles on service programs. In previous articles, I discussed how to create a service program, followed by discussing the benefits and cautions of using the binding language with your service programs. In this article, I'll discuss how to create binding directories and why you would want to use them.
The Delete Object API offers flexibility in terms of removing unneeded objects.
Written by Bruce Vining
As a new year approaches, many of you may be looking at general house-cleaning of your i. This activity might include deleting those objects that have been created over the last 12 months and are no longer needed. In the past, if you wanted to automate such cleanup activities from, say, an RPG application program, you may have written various CL programs that were then called from the RPG program in order to run the appropriate DLTxxx CL command or, as an alternative, constructed the appropriate CL DLTxxx command within an RPG program variable and then run the command using an API such as Process Commands. If your system is at V6 or later, you now have another option, one that does not rely on running CL commands. This new technique, of course, is also available to your application programs whenever they need to delete an object, not just for general system maintenance.
Written by Tom Snyder
Written by Bruce Vining