RE: Programming where to go next?

[Steve Morrison <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim & Tena,

It good to see that there are still new faces coming into the iSeries
programming world. To develop screens to prompt for user input, you need to
start looking at the SDA utility. After the screen is developed, you can use
CL, RPG or any other language you are familiar with to display the screen
and read back the variables you prompted for. Then you can feed that to your
report to make the selections you need. 

I'm still getting started with the WDSCi development tools so I can't
comment on how to use them to develop screens. 

What is type of tools do you have? Are there any others at your location
with iSeries programming experience?








Steve Morrison
Beacon Insurance
940-720-4672 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ellifritz [mailto:tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:42 AM
To: Midrange-L@Midrange. Com
Subject: Programming where to go next?

Newbie help required!

I can do some simple programming using a combination of CL / SQL / and QRY
to do some basic reporting. My only other experience in programming is using
MS Access and vba. In the software package we use there is a menu editor
that allows me to change our main apps menus, or create new menus, to call
programs that I've created. That's how I have our users run anything I've
done so far. I need help grasping how to build my own screens and display
files, 'I think that's what I need', so I can create reports based on user
defined variables etc...

Could anyone recommend a book, website tutorial, or anything that could help
me with what I need to do next.

TIA,

Tim Ellifritz
Creative Stage Lighting Co., Inc.
149 Rt. 28N
North Creek, NY 12853
T 518-251-3302 X 218
F 518-251-2908


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