1. What is bound-by-call and bound-by-reference? 2. Where and why is *Nomain used? 3. What are the difficulties faced by programmers when using service programs? 4. Explain the different ways of parsing and compiling XML in iSeries.

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how to retrieve particular field records from a physical file,say i have a physical file called 'employee' in it i have to retrieve the records of a field 'admin' present in pf 'employee' using rpg,but i should not use logical file or openquery file.

3 Answers   iGate, Wipro,

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Suppose you have 3 members in a database file. How to read records from all the members without using CL (OVRDBF) i.e. Entire process should be handled exclusively in a RPG program?

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How to create a key field for a logical file inside RPG?

4 Answers   HSBC,

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Suppose we have one database file and it is used by 5 programs and in 3 program we have to add some records in datbase file s what is the impact on other program?

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why we do STRSRVJOB in batch debugging in as400

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I have some doubts on subfile----------- -----I wrote a prog on subfile to display the records. Every thing is clear but i defined a field called "opt" as input field in subfile record format from that input field i wish to enter into new screen called "EDIT" which i created it as a separate RCD in display file. i gave opt as 2 for edit just like in WRKMBRPDM screen please telll me the code and how can i code for it in RPG.

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what is meant by record lock.how records are locked.what is the purpose of record lock.if records are locked what happens.how to find out which record is locked.

4 Answers   HCL,

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Can we have a Physical file without any member ? Please let me know

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How Chain operation copies the record's data to the input buffer for the program?

0 Answers   IBM,

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A particular job executing on the iS is not behaving as expected and is operating in an environment in which it can be debugged. What commands would you use to debug and observe the program?

2 Answers   IBM,

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parameters cannot be passed in which one???

4 Answers   CTS,

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