Re: Sources of info

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are also education courses available via HAL, 
but I'll be danged if I can remember their web site.  
Contact Jon Paris.

We're running a recently hired lad we're saving from 
mainframe Cobol.  (He's the son of another staff member.)  
He's going through the whole gamut of ATS courses.





barsa2@ibm.net on 05/03/2000 05:16:41 PM
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At 03:09 PM 05/03/2000 -0400, you wrote:

The AS/400 Education connection puts on two three-day conferences each year.

See:

http://www.as400connection.com/

Al


> >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
>
>
>Al Macintyre  ? ?
>http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
>
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