RE: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

Just ask some questions pertinent to your environment. IMHO, a competent programmer is a competent
programmer in virtually any language. Unless you shop uses the RPG cycle and matching record logic,
there really isn't anything in RPG that is terribly goofy and can't easily be learned with a simple
example. This is particularly true if you are using free form RPG4. Ask some algorithm questions
such as how to read a group of records into a subfile (or ask them to pseudo code it). Ask how to
sort an array. Ask how to create a result set for ODBC if you are planning to do web access.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Munday
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:51 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

The manager on my new project has asked me to derive a list of RPG technical questions for a
programmer interview she is conducting later today. The company is coming off of two old platforms
(COBOL and Lansa) and their intent is to do all development in RPGIV, /Free and embedded SQL. They
have been burned previously by a programmer or two who represented mucho experience only to find that
they did not know sh** from Shinola.

If you have questions to submit which are thoughtful and moderately involved, please send them to me
offline at RWMunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC