Re: Re(2): Bulk update of CL source file

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
> 
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