PGM assist?

In message <343BEE90.BD5@usaor.net>, From Tim Truax <truax@usaor.net>, 
the following was written:
> In order to get this program to compile I had to CRTDUPOBJ 
> DUPDATA(*NO) the USSRCHM file into my library as UXSRCHM, then place 
> an OVRDBF for UXSRCHM to point to actual USSRCHM file.  Is creating an
  > empty file object considered proper to getting the program to
compile?

Tim,

It's either that or build a wrapper around the compiler to install an
override for the file - that works too. There are negatives either way.
With the dummy file, you need to make sure its definition matches the
real one. That's a potential problem if the production file is changed.
With compile time overrides (of course you could just install an
override from the command line and compile interactively, but we all
know that's a bad thing to do...) you need to maintain an extra program
to install the override and execute the compile and you must document
things sufficiently so that you will know how to run the compile the
next time you see the beast.

In our shop, we use the latter method. We have a standard naming
convention for compile override programs, and try very hard to document
the source sufficiently so that we don't confuse ourselves, but we still
find a program (talking RPG 3 here) that won't compile from time to time
when we need to mass compile a bunch of code. This is less of a problem
with RPG 4, because the compile procedure doesn't so easily lend itself
to mass compiles We're more likely to read the notes in the source.

Pete


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 - Pete Hall peteh@earth.inwave.com
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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