Re: help in start a first RPGLE

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the original poster -

First, welcome to RPG. Second, we don't have much information from you - 
not enough to tell you anything, as you have seen . Everyone is making 
guesses. So let me ask you some things

1. What are you using to edit the source member?
2. What job is getting the error?
3. Are you getting the error when you compile the program?
4. Or are you getting the error when you run the program?
5. Where are you seeing the error?
6. Do you know how to find more help when you get an error? The thing to 
do is put your cursor on the error, then press F1. That gives you more 
information on that message. Then press F10 to see more messages - that 
is probably where you will see the problem.
7. What is the version of the OS on your iSeries? If you don't know, try 
the command      DSPDTAARA QSS1MRI     - you probably want to copy/paste 
that command into a command line in your emulator.
8. Did you tell what the message ID is for the error? If you don't know 
what a message ID is, ask us.

We are glad to help, but we need to know what you are doing.

Oh - there is a Programmer's Guide that IBM puts out - 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/books/sc092507.pdf 
or http://tinyurl.com/kwwtky will get it. There is an example ILR RPG 
program in there. You will also have to create a couple physical files 
in order to create the program. Chapter 20 has an example interactive 
program. Again, there are files that need to be created - a physical 
file and a couple display files, for the user to work with.

But you have been given an extremely simple one - it will work as is, 
but since it doesn't, we need to know more.

Here is a link to a tutorial - it covers a lot of things and might help 
you (I know, it has some old stuff in it, but it might be the ticket)

  http://www.texas400.com/tutas400toc.html

Here is another one - I cannot say how good it is, but it's worth looking at

  http://www.broculos.net/tutorials/category/AS400/en

I just googled for rpg tutorial as400

Also, someone mentioned Scott Klement's site - do go there - this link 
is about how to learn RPG

http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/howtolearn.html


Regards
Vern

Rich Woods wrote:
> If you are using option 14 in PDM to compile, maybe the compile defaults to QBATCH (or some subsystem or job queue) that you don't have authority to use?
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> Rich Woods
> American Seating Company
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> > From: new_id Y <newid_y@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:31:34 
> > To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: help in start a first RPGLE program!!
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> > /free
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> > dsply "hello World";
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> > *inlr = *on;
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> > /end-free
> > I did as above but still i find that abnormal job :( 
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> > How i can know the error and check it?
> > Thanks
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