Some jobs are too tricky to leave to your computer unsupervised, but RDPi has tools that speed up even the most tedious of programming tasks.
Written by Joe Pluta
A computer will do exactly what you tell it to do, no matter how much that request might defy common sense. A perfect example of that truism is the ubiquitous and sometimes dangerous "find and replace." You can tell any decent source-editing tool to replace all instances of the field name CUSNAM with CUSNME and it will dutifully do exactly that, and thanks to the cryptic nature of field names in RPG, the chances are that the execution will be flawless. However, use find and replace enough and you will eventually run into a situation where the editor replaces things you really didn't want replaced. This article shows you how to combine a couple of features of Rational Developer for Power Systems Software for IBM i (RDPi) to create a semi-automated find and replace mechanism.
Achieve API invocation performance gains and discover a new pointer caching technique.
Written by Junlei Li
The System Entry Point Table (SEPT) object, QSYS/QINSEPT, is a space object with MI object type/subtype code hex 19C3 and external object type *SEPT. It is designed to improve the performance of invocation of program objects in library QSYS. The SEPT stores authorized system pointers to many (but not all) of the user domain/system state (aka API) or system domain/system state program objects residing in library QSYS in its associated space.
Written by Joe Pluta
Written by Junlei Li