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AS/400 Course Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE AS/400 Overview of Application System/400 AS/400 Version & Release High Level Machine Technology Independence AS/400 Connectivity OS/400 CONCEPTS o Single Level Storage o Virtual Storage o Licensed Products & Programming Languages o AS/400 Object o Describe Library/Object concepts o Library List o Menus. SECURITY CONCEPTS AS/400 WORK MANAGEMENT Introduction to Work Management Job Definition Job Types Submitting Batch Job Spool Files & Output Queues Subsystem & Subsystem Description Storage Pools Basic Message Handling PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK Programming Environment Member Concept Source Physical File Standard Naming Conventions Getting Started with PDM WRKLIBPDM WRKOBJPDM WRKMBRPDM Source Entry Utility Entering SEU SEU Work Screen Editing Functions SEU Command Line DDS FOR PRINT DESIGN Structure of DDS , Device File DDS FOR SCREEN DESIGN DDS Design for Screens Screen Layout DDS Keywords Creating Display File MANIPULATING THE DATABASE Accessing Data Via Utilities Data File Utility Create DFU Program AS/400 MENUS Design Menu Creation of Menu MORE FACILITIES

Application Program Interface Journaling Commitment Control CONTROL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING (CL/400)

Command Syntax CL Commands CL Program Structure Declaring Variable , Relational & Logical Expressions Declaring a Display File in a CL Program Consideration for Declaring a Display File in a CL Program Branching Outside a Program Parameter Passing. CALLING HLL FROM CL PROGRAM Changing the Value of a Variable Concatenation, Substring Operation Creation of CL Program & Debugging Data Area. OPNQRYF DATA QUEUE

RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT - DB2/400 INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE MANAGEMENT AS/400 Integrated Database Types of Database File Program Described File Externally Described File AS/400 RELATIONAL DATABASE Access Path Definition Physical File Multiple Members in a File CRTPF Parameters Filed Reference File LOGICAL FILE DDS Keywords Join Logical File CPYF AS/400 DATABASE MAINTENANCE DSPFFD DSPPGMREF DSPDBR FNDSTRPDM JOURNALLING REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY & TRIGGERS COBOL/400 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE COBOL/400 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Overview Of COBOL / 400 Programming Features of COBOL/400 Complier Entering COBOL/400 source program Compiling COBL/400 program Debugging COBOL/400 program Running COBOL/400 complied program COBOL/400 LANGUAGE STRUCTURE Structure of the COBOL/400 program Character Set

COBOL/400 Words Arithmetic Expressions Figurative Constants User Defined Literals or Constants Numeric & Non-Numeric literals Data Type Program Layout Continuation Lines COBOL/400 PROGRAM STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION DIVISION ENVIRONMENT DIVISION DATA DIVISION PROCEDURE DIVISION

INPUT/OUTPUT STATEMENTS IN COBOL/400 ACCEPT Statement DISPLAY Statement

DATA MANIPULATED STATEMENTS COPY Statement PERFORM VARYING Statement SET Statement SEARCH Statement PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS STOP RUN Statement EXIT Statement GO TO Statement PERFORM Statement ARITHMETIC VERBS & STATEMENTS ADD Verb SUBTRACT Verb MULTIPLY Verb DIVIDE Verb MOVE Statement COMPUTE Statement ON SIZE ERROR Statement ROUNDED Statement FILE HANDLING STATEMENTS OPEN Statement READ Statement WRITE Statement CLOSE Statement START Statement REWRITE Statement DLETE Statement FILE ORGANIZATION Sequential Relative Indexed File Updating Indexed Files TRANSFERRING CONTROL TO ANOTHER PROGRAM Main Program and Sub Program Initialization of Storage Passing Data Using by Reference or by Content

 Describing Arguments in the Calling Program Describing Parameters in the Called Program Program Termination Statement Cancel Statement Call Statement Usage of Linkage Section Call Statement Considerations INTRODUCTION TO SUB FILE Introduction to Sub files To Access Records Read Sub file Write Sub file Read Sub file Next Modified Rewrite Sub file Random Access of Sub file Records Sequential Access of Sub file Records SORTING & MERGING TABLE HANDLING RPG /400 Programming languages: Introduction to RPG/400 Structured programming Structured operations RPG/400 specifications Development of RPG Program Operation Codes ( op codes) RPG/400 indicators, Figurative Constants File Processing Handling Display Files in RPG/400 program Creating RPG Program Debugging RPG/400 program subprogram and parameter processing DATA AREA DATA STRUCTURE ARRAYS Sub files 11. Exception and Error handling 12. DATA QUEUE 13. ILE Programming Language concepts