Re: Sources of info

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>From Al Macintyre, programming since 1960's on fore-runners to AS/400 but 
only since 1998 on AS/400 so still newbie in some areas

We subscribe to News/400 Magazine & have tried various others.
Some we pay for, some are free like AS/400 Magazine.
There's text books on all aspects of AS/400 programming ... they advertised 
in News/400 & other trade publications & some of the advertising we get in 
the snail mail.
The trade publications have heavy e-newsletters, some with programming tips 
... News/400 has real ones, but watch out with e-newsletters/400 the ratio of 
junk ads to useful info is incredibly high.

IBM still publishes a few manuals & we have them.  But you need to go to IBM 
school, which also provides take-home reference materials.
http://www.training.ibm.com/ibmedu/spotlight/as400.html

The trade publications host relevant seminars & there's always COMMON.

All the errror codes are on-line in the message files from which the AS/400 
delivers them to your program execution ... most of them have useful 2nd 
level code ... but we also have the manuals that step us through what we 
should do if we have a particular error message & are kind of lost ... or 
even have a message that is not an error, like asking us to mess with printer 
forms.

> From: jburcher@cbcolcntr.com (Jeff Burcher)
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  for newbie programmers, where are some good places to get quick and easy
>  answers to perplexing problems. (Especially those questions that probably
>  have simple answers, like, "What does API stand for?" or "Is there a list 
of
>  all the Error Codes and their full descriptions somewhere?".) I will be
>  posting a list of such sources as well as using them myself. (These sources
>  do not have to be internet accessible, i.e., manuals, redbooks, magazines,
>  etc.)
>  
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Jeff Burcher
>  AS/400 Programmer
>  GMA/CBCC
>  (336) 378-6300 x3207
>  fax: (336) 378-6266
>  jburcher@cbcolcntr.com


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