iSeries for Application Developers

Audience

Audience is programmers or analysts who will be developing or maintaining applications on the system.

Prerequisites

None.

Duration

5 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This course is designed to introduce programmers and analysts to the i (System i, i5, iSeries and AS/400). from the point of view of application development. On completion, attendees will be able to use system displays, menus, commands and Help, control batch and print jobs and handle common problems. Create database objects and write and compile programs using the development environments.

Course Content

Introduction
i (System i , i5, iSeries and AS/400) and i OS (OS/400)
Introduce the basics of system architecture and system objects
Familiarization with some displays
Describe some of the basic terminology used with the system (objects, libraries etc.)
iSeries interfaces
Introduce the various interfaces that may be used
System menus, displays and iSeries Navigator
Understand the working environment
Control Language
Object management
Library Management
Library Lists
Messages
Know where to go for HELP
On-line Help
Information Centre
Managing work on the system
Jobs
Job descriptions
Interactive work
Batch work
Subsystems
Scheduled jobs
Find that job
Job Commands
Printing
Output Queues, Writers, Devices
Printing commands
How print finds its way to the printer
How to find it if it gets lost
Print Writers
Security concepts
System Values
User profiles
Class and Special Authority
Group Profiles
Permission's (Object Authority)
Public Authority
Authorization Lists
Authority Checking
Spooled file security
Navigator
Application Administration
Backup and recovery
Types of Failure
Recovery Options
Backup Media
Save
Restore
Complete System Save
Disaster Recovery
Performance
Definitions
Observing Performance
Active Jobs
System Status
Disk Status
Problem Determination
Useful Commands
Working with jobs
Job Logs
History Log
Message Queues
Development Environments
Source Physical Files
Creating objects
Programming Development Manager (PDM, SEU, SDA)
WDSC/RSE/RDi and CODE
UDB DB2 for i
Defining and maintaining the database using Data Description
Specifications (DDS) and Data Definition Language (DDL) in SQL.
Introduction to CL programming
Program Structure
Coding Rules
Variables
Expressions
Conditioning
Parameters
Substring
External Information
Data Areas
Monitoring Messages
Sending Messages