Fun Series with iSeries - 3 Oct 2007 - Raju

Non-Technical

1. When was AS/400 introduced? ( June 1988)

2. What was the original code name for AS/400? (Silver Lake)


3. When the AS/400 was introduced in June 1988, how many processor models were there? (6 models)
a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8

4. What kind of performance did the AS/400 offer over the System/36? (5 times)
a. 5 times the performance
b. 7 times the performance
c. 8 times the performance
d. 10 times the performance

5. The 250,000th AS/400 was sold in 1994 to which company? (Coca-Cola)
a. Coca-Cola Co.
b. Pepsi-Cola Co.
c. Dr Pepper/Seven-Up, Inc.
d. National Beverage Corp.


6. Approximately how many applications were available for the AS/400 when the first one shipped in 1988? (2,500)

a. 1,500
b. 2,000
c. 2,500
d. 3,000

7. In what year was the AS/400 renamed the eServer iSeries? (2000)

a. 1998
b. 1999
c. 2000
d. 2001



8. Today, how many operating system environments can be run simultaneously from a single iSeries server? (4 - OS/400, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Linux)
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

9. What is latest system of AS/400 called? (System i)

10. What is the full form of TIMI? (Technology Independent Machine Interface)
Used on IBM System i platform. Allows application programs to take advantage of advances in hardware and software without recompilation. TIMI is a virtual instruction set; it is not the instruction set of the underlying CPU. User-mode programs contain both TIMI instructions and the machine instructions of the CPU, thus ensuring hardware independence.
The TIMI instructions are stored within the final program object, in addition to the executable machine instructions. This is how application objects compiled on one processor family (e.g. the original CISC AS/400 48-bit processors) could be moved to a new processor (e.g. PowerPC 64-bit) without re-compilation.


Technical

1. How can i tell if the program is running in batch or interactive? (QUSRJOBI API, the Job Type field (QUSJT04) will contain a B for batch or I for interactive)

2. What does %REM return? (Returns an Integer Remainder)

3. When a record is not found in READPE, what will be the value of the equal indicator? (Set ON)

4. When a record is not found in SETLL, what will be the value of High indicator?(Off)


5. How to access a specific member in SQL? (Create an ALIAS with SQL)


6. How can I retrieve an IP address of a session AS400? (QDCRDEVD API)

7. What is the command to create an activation group?(no command. Only we can control the creation of an activation group)

8. How to determine if a specific spool file exits? (QUSRSPLA)

9. There is no key field defined on the file can I use SETLL on this file? (Yes)

10. Max number Printer files that can be specified in an RPG IV program? (8)