RE: WRKJOBSCDE Filename ?? -- MIDRANGE-L





First of all let me say that IBM put the whole kit and caboodle in one
object, which admittedly did reduce save/restore overhead, but made the
individual parts of the data more difficult to manipulate.  So they had to
write API's, etc. Someone explained to me (and I don't remember why) a file
wouldn't have worked at the time, but I think that it was related to the
types of data that we had available then.

In a future release of OS/400 (not that I ever know anything about the
future), IBM was going to do the same thing for a certain new type of data
object, and I persuaded them to make them individual objects.

I'm not a liberty to say more about that, but ask me for an example after
the next release or two comes out.

Al

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Al:

Would you please expand on why you feel it was a 'clooge'? I mean, I
believe that there are enhancements that should be made (e.g.,
dependencies), but I've liked the general object structure from the
beginning. It's been the minimal enhancement for _years_ that's been my big
issue.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. Re: WRKJOBSCDE Filename ?? (Al Barsa)
>
>It's not a file, it's a clooge.  It was just a bad implementation (IMHO)
by
>IBM, and I recently convinced them to avoid a comparable implementation of
>some new feature in a future release.
>
>If you want to convert this to a file, see this tool:
>
>http://www.taatool.com/document/L_cvtjobscde.htm
>
>Al

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Tom Liotta
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