I came to know that QCMDEXC api is an IBM-supplied program for the IBM i system that can be either called from RPG or CL and other programs to call any other program that does not return any value. What ...Read more

What is a qualified data structure? How do we qualify the data structure subfields? Please explain its usage with an example and provide the sample code in fixed-format RPG, free-format RPG, and fully-free RPG.

How do you retrieve the call stack information in the rpgle program? For example, if we call pgm1, we want to know who called it or look for a particular program in the call stack. Is there any way to ...Read more

I want to use the date instead of the timestamp value. How can I convert the timestamp type value to the date value in the RPG program? How can I extract the date portion from a timestamp value? Provide a simple ...Read more

In some places, I saw the use of the OVERLAY keyword in the RPGLE program in data structure sub-fields. For the sub-fields defined using the OVERLAY keyword, there was no definition defined in the definition specs in the RPG program ...Read more

Make a list of data types supported in the RPGLE programming language. Data types can be declared in Fixed format or free format in RPG. Please provide the data types by category such as character, numeric, date, time, timestamp, object, ...Read more

I was looking into RPGLE opcode for numeric operations and stuck in z-add and need an example of the z-add opcode and how it works. Provide an example using z-add in the RPGLE program.

I was looking into the Z-ADD opcode and building an understanding of it. Suddenly I noticed that an operation extended H (Half adjust) can be used with it to make it Z-ADD(H) but I am not getting any difference in ...Read more

I was trying to replace some characters in my working string in the rpgle program but was not getting it. I just researched that %xlate is an opcode that can be used to replace certain characters in the string with ...Read more