i for Application Developers
Duration
5 days
What the Course Covers
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.
How Can You Apply the Skills You Will Learn?
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.
Who Should Attend
Audience is programmers or analysts who will be developing or maintaining applications on the system.
Prerequisites
None
Agenda
The following topics will be covered
- 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)
- 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)
- RSE/WDSC/RDi
- 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