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I would very much appreciate any elaboration that you are willing to provide. If you have an example of a program that you wrote that would be extremely helpful as well. Best Regards, Rich Reeve --- Mike Naughton <mnaughton@juddwire.com> wrote: > If you've got over 1,000 members to do, IMHO you > should _definitely_ write > a program. In an earlier post, I outlined a general > plan, but I'll be > happy to elaborate on it if you like. The key point > is that the "extra" > stuff (declaring the variable, loading the variable > from the file, etc.) > should all be the same from member to member, so > your program can just add > it to each member at the appropriate points. > > I speak from some experience -- I did our Y2K > conversion, and among other > things I had to convert dates in several hundred > files (some > multi-member). I wrote a template of an RPG > file-update program and then > put it in an array at the bottom of another program, > which built a > file-specific version of this program for each file > I needed to deal with. > It added the specific fields to be updated, etc. so > I had zero manual > coding to do. I set up a string of CLPs that would > start with a file > containing file and field names and end with all the > programs that I > needed, compiled and ready to run. > > Your project sounds very similar -- I'd encourage > you to go for it. I'm > sure it can be done. > > MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com writes: > >I suppose that is an option but will still require > me > >to manually update in excess of 1000 members > manually. > > I was hoping to avoid that. > > > Mike Naughton > Senior Programmer/Analyst > Judd Wire, Inc. > 124 Turnpike Road > Turners Falls, MA 01376 > 413-863-4357 x444 > mnaughton@juddwire.com > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to > MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to > MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list > owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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