Mastering IBM i: The Complete Resource for Today's IBM i System

by Jim Buck, Jerry Fottral

A comprehensive introduction to IBM i—the operating system that runs on IBM's midrange computer systems (System i, iSeries, AS/400)—and its facilities, this in-depth resource uses step-by-step exercises, review questions, and chapter labs to teach new programmers the latest system concepts and tools. Reflecting system changes that have occurred since 2000, topics include Rational Developer for Power (RDP), RDP Screen Designer and Report Designer, IBM i Access for Windows, IBM i Access for Web, IBM DB2 Web Query for i, and Remote System Explorer (RSE).

952 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Joanna]

I didn't read every chapter of this book, only the assigned ones, but it's time to finally get it off my "currently reading" shelf. I'm not really sure why I thought I would read the unassigned ones on my own. For fun, I guess? To be clear, this book is not fun to read. It works reasonably well as a textbook, but I found a lot of it to be what seemed to be needlessly confusing. That said, I OFTEN found a chapter would seem like gibberish, and then we would go through the end-of-chapter questions, and then I would look back and it was like the text had been rewritten behind my back, all clear and easy. I'm not sure how the shoemaker's elves got involved, but I think they meddled. Anyway, if you need to learn how to use IBM I programming, you could do worse than this book.