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Thanks! We shall give it a try.

I'm presented with a new project challenge of receiving .gpg files on the IBM i and found that, of course, the great-one (aka Scott K), already tackled this monster for us ole dinosaurs. Before I go down the road of installing and trying it out, I have a couple of questions/concerns.

The Using ...

Oh wow. I never would have thought the PSDS would come into play. This prompted me to actually read the documentation. lol.. Sure enough there she blows. I will test it out and see. Thanks so much!

Thanks jonboy... I'll keep experimenting with data-into by just giving it a name. I've reviewed several of Scott's presentations on YAJL but I don't recall seeing anything about naming the root. I'll keep looking. If I find a solution, I'll follow up with a post on what worked.

I have successfully used HTTPAPI in concert with both data-into and YAJL to read a JSON response. I'm very perplexed as how to read a response that looks like the following.


[
{
"DealerTitle": "blah blah blah",
"DealerID": "blah blah blah",
"ContractID": "10526702",
"ContractNo": "D0404099 ...

skip_nulls worked liked magic on the first try! You da man! Thanks Scott!!!

OMG Awesome! If it were not for Scott and other IBM Champions like yourself, this ole dinosaur who cut his teeth on the IBM System 3 Model 10 on up through to the Power i (along with many other dinosaurs) would surely be extinct. I appreciate all y'all do!!!

Jon, thanks so much for the input. Yes, I am familiar with the articles as your writings were a great help in getting me started with this project and being successful. Thanks so much for what you do! Please don’t stop doing it..lol..

What prompted my discussion is that DATA-INTO kept failing and ...

I prefer DATA-INTO over YAJL procedures simply because it seems like much less code and looks cleaner. Once the data structures are mapped, one line of code to parse it sure is nice.

Before I begin writing plenty of code, I figured I’d try to get some insight on if I should even try to use DATA ...