Integrated Seminars provide in-depth education on a specific subject and are part of the general conference. Signing up for an Integrated Seminar is a commitment for a full day of the conference; be sure to stay for the entire seminar so you won't miss critical education! There is no additional fee and no advance registration, but seats are limited. Attend this seminar on a first come, first served basis.

ABSTRACT:
The CL seminar will feature alternating sections of lecture and lab. Each lab assignment reinforces the lesson in the preceeding lecture. The topics start simply and become increasingly complex, with each exercise building on the previous.

The topics covered include:
1. A basic introduction to CL, the SEU editor, and compile options.
2. Defining and working with variables.
3. An introduction to the ISDB debugger.
4. Message handling, including SNDPGMMSG and SNDUSRMSG.
5. Passing parameters to and from CL programs.
6. Error handling.
7. Structured Programming with IF, DO, DOUNTIL, DOWHILE, DOFOR, and SELECT.
8. Subroutines.
9. Overrides.
10. Application support commands such as CPYF, CHKOBJ, CRTDUPOBJ, and ADDLIBLE.
11. File handling including multiple files.
12. Screen handling.
13. Working with Outfiles.