Re: QDBRTVFD question

To James

The old manuals do point to QUSRTOOL - but that is not used for APIs anymore at all. All the includes now are in library QSYSINC. It can be very instructive to look at the members there in file QRPGLESRC. If the API is not listed there, it will probably be in file H for the C/C++ includes. Or in MIH for the MI functions you can use. In the 2 latter cases you will need to figure out the prototypes, but it's not usually difficult.

Beyond that, you don't have to print the whole manual - there being none, you can't. ;-) But it is not hard to find the API in the online books. V4R4 online library is still accessible at

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/eng44.htm

Under "System Programming Support" you can get to the API manuals. Each category is its own manual at this release. They are in the BookManager format and can be printed in their entirety from there. I've even been known to select the entire book, then save it so that I can turn it into Word format - had lots of time once upon a time!!

Click on "System API Reference", then on "Summary of OS/400 APIs" in that manual, then on "1.1.2.1 APIs Described in This Book <1.1.2.1?SHELF=&DT=19990525133816&CASE=>" in THAT manual. This takes you to a page with all the API classifications, and those are each separate manuals.

Enjoy!

HTH
Vern

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

That's one reason I went around to mods and destroyed old IBM manuals. They were relying on the last one they had hard copy of instead of the newest ones.

Rob Berendt