books about AS/400
Mario Misic
I am new in OS/400 so can anyone sugest me a good book about AS/400 and
OS/400.
Thanks!
Mario Misic
Tim Miley
> Thanks!
> Mario Misic
Well, the most common books I use are the IBM manuals. Also, the IBM Redbooks
online are helpful. They're at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/online/homeeng1.htm
I'm basically a newbie, but after 1 yr 4 months, I am doing things that confuse
the programmer/analyst when she looks at my code.
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Patrick Townsend
I like "Subfiles for RPG Programmers" by Michael Catalani. Nicely
written with good examples.
Patrick
Mario Misic wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am new in OS/400 so can anyone sugest me a good book about AS/400 and
> OS/400.
>
> Thanks!
> Mario Misic
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Kevin Wright
Good to hear someone so recent to the '400 able and willing to give good
advice.
However, maybe you should read some books about the importance of someone
else being able to read your code, understand it, and maintain it. Or for
that matter, if you yourself can understand and maintain it in, oh, one year
and four months time, say. Being able to write tricky code that may confuse
is one thing, but as someone else here has said today, the maintenance and
enhancement of existing code is often as large a part of the SDLC as
originally cutting it, if not larger.
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which I work
"Keep the Aspidistra flying"
Tim Miley <tmi...@yakko.cs.wmich.edu> wrote in message
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> Mario Misic <mmi...@combis.hr> wrote:
> > Hi!
>
> > I am new in OS/400 so can anyone sugest me a good book about AS/400 and
> > OS/400.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Mario Misic
>
Tim Miley
> Tim,
> Good to hear someone so recent to the '400 able and willing to give good
> advice.
> However, maybe you should read some books about the importance of someone
> else being able to read your code, understand it, and maintain it. Or for
> that matter, if you yourself can understand and maintain it in, oh, one year
> and four months time, say. Being able to write tricky code that may confuse
> is one thing, but as someone else here has said today, the maintenance and
> enhancement of existing code is often as large a part of the SDLC as
> originally cutting it, if not larger.
> --
> Kevin Wright
> Aspect Computing Pty Ltd
> Usual disclaimer about these being my views and not those of the company for
> which I work
> "Keep the Aspidistra flying"
True enough. I'm afraid I'm following in somewhat of a bad tradition here.
The code I maintain is pretty sparsely documented internally and confusingly
written. This is part of the reason I have had a slow learning curve when doing
maintenance. Instead of being able to look right at the comments and
understand what my predecessor was doing, I have to read most of the program to
know where to begin changing.
I find myself falling into a trap when I tell myself, "I'll comment the code
later." Later becomes never, especially when really busy.
Jürgen Schatzl
> Hi!
>
> I am new in OS/400 so can anyone sugest me a good book about AS/400 and
> OS/400.
>
Hi Mario,
for RPG programming i recommend "Programming in RPG/400" by Judy
Yeager from Duke Press. They also have a lot of other AS/400 related
books.
If your intersted in the internals and the overall sotry on the
AS/400, there ist no better book than "Inside the AS/400", written by
Frank Soltis, also from Duke Press.
cya
Juergen
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