Power up your RPG IV development with this collection of tips, techniques, and ideas from the guy who wrote the book on RPG IV. This handy, pocket-sized compilation is full of short, practical, reusable ideas that you can easily plug into your everyday programming environment. A word from the author: "RPG programmers and students constantly ask me for examples of RPG IV code. Based on my 30+ years of RPG programming and corporate training, it's obvious to me that looking at other people's code is an incredibly effective means of learning RPG IV. Not ony are examples useful in learning RPG IV, but they also serve as a great reservoir of reusable code in your day-to-day programming activities. Power Tips for RPG IV adds to that reservoir of examples." Many of the book's tips are packaged as procedures that you can easily bind into ILE programs or service programs. If you haven't started reaping the benefits of procedures yet, here are some seeds to help you get started.

Here are just a few of the great tips you'll find in this book: Removing characters from a string, converting dates to numeric values, date functions service program, replacing an *ENTRY PLIST, calling QCMDEXC, fixing decimal data errors, loading array data at compile time, getting the name of the calling program, user spaces service program, generating a random number, and generating a unique identifier.