Re: Good RPG examples of API's for IFS

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

> Are there any good examples of using api's accessing the IFS?  IBM's or
> any body elses.
>
> Want to "open", "read", and I guess "close" file, that a software package
> to do Credit Card processing has decided to put some of there reports (XML
> format) in the IFS.

I wrote a 7-part series entitled "RPG and the IFS" for iSeries NEWS 
magazine. It ran from November 2004 til September 2005. If you're a ProVIP 
subscriber, you can read these articles at the following links:

 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=19312
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=19473
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=19626
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=19751
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=20050
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=20141
 http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/article.cfm?id=20235

I'm rather proud of the preceding articles, since they've won two awards. 
In 2005 they won the "Gary Guthrie Award for Excellence in Technical 
Writing" from the staff of iSeries NEWS.  And just recently, they were 
awarded a Silver medal by the American Society of Business Publication 
Editors (www.asbpe.org) (my article was in the Western Region, under 
"Feature Series")

The iSeries NEWS articles use free format RPG and are aimed at V5R2 (or 
later) of OS/400.

I also have an older tutorial (V4R5, fixed format) that's available for 
free on my Web site.
http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs.html

There's also material in the IBM Redbook "Who Knew You Could Do That with 
RPG IV? A Sorcerer's Guide to System Access and More". The redbook is even 
more out of date than my Web site, but if you haven't read it, there's a 
TON of good information (not just IFS stuff) that you might be able to use 
in the future.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

Julian Monypenny also wrote a series on this.  I can probably dig up links 
to that if you're still looking for more material! :)