RE: Do you use BITOF?

I took the same test. I thought it was a joke and it was better than some I 
have taken lately. Everyone of the test I have taken lately have been called 
ILE RPG or RPG IV and all they were about was RPG III and some of them looked 
like tests for RPG II. 

The only good test I ever took was the IBM RPG certification several years ago 
and I was surprised how much ILE RPG it had. I had been doing ILE for 2 years 
already so it was easy for me. 

Used BITON and BITOFF in RPG III to set Hex values years ago. IBM had example 
of how to do without BITON and BITOFF so have functions that do that now. That 
is only use I ever found for them. Like I said, half the questions on the 
Brainbench should never been on the test. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon ODonnell [mailto:sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:32 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Do you use BITOF?


I took an RPG Assessment test the other day and to my surprise, there were
FOUR QUESTIONS! On the results of using BITOF and BITON.  

 

I think that I have used those opcodes maybe twice in 17 years.   Now either
I'm not doing something right or the RPG Assessment test from BrainBench.com
is woefully out of date.


Does anyone use BITOFF and BITON on a even a semi-regular basis?

 

Shannon O'Donnell