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  • Subject: Re: Re[2]: Matching Record (Was Need Help)
  • From: cmassoglia@xxxxxxxxxxx (Charlie Massoglia)
  • Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 22:41:54 -0400 (EDT)

>>What is interesting is how ADDROUT evolved
>>into alternate index processing on the S/36, followed by logical views
>>of relational databases on the S/38 and AS/400, thus reducing the need
>>for the old $SORT and #GSORT utilities..
>
>Never heard that...
>
>>Would I be opening a can of worms by mentioning CCP ...?
>
>System/3 model 12 and 15.  Communications Control Program.
>Let you talk to attached 3270 terminals without actually
>writing assembler code (DTF's anyone?).
>
CCP also let you position the cursor on a screen by field name.  The AS/400
today requires an indicator or an absolute line/position cursor address.

Don't knock CCP.  It was great.


Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net


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