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On 9/26/07, Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Now that we're well past all that was done to create Version 3 of
OS/400 and related LPPs, we should all hope that IBM develops using
techniques and methods that leverage what Hans and all the others
might have done previously. Now that Version 6 is being polished for
release, we should all hope that much of it was done just as we all
should be doing our work.

In V5R4, I can create some pretty major SQL CLI apps using nothing
but ILE CL. That includes (almost) full green-screen function with
DSM APIs. That's not an assertion that that's the right thing to do,
but only that my tools have become more capable. I would hope that
IBM's internal development tools have also undergone some level of
improvement so that the current RPG-group can get more done as well.
I would hope that the RPG-group has been given the ability to do
more per person.


Would it be good news or bad news if Hans wasn't replaced?

I guess it depends on whether or not a replacement was needed. Maybe
the current RPG-group can do far more with less expense because of
what Hans and others left behind.

Isn't that a major point of what's happened in recent years? /Must/
everything always take more money and more people?

there are plenty of needed improvements to i5/os that IBM is not
willing do. I am doing SQL procedure work lately on v5r4. I cant
call an sql procedure directly from CL with parameters. debugging an
sql procedure is barely functional. ( have to know the C structure my
variables are declared in. cant use F10 to step to the next stmt. )
When my sql procedure bombs the system does not tell me the stmt
number where the error occured. When testing sql procedures from
STRSQL that return result sets I have to signoff and signon after
every test because otherwise the cursor stays open. With LINQ in
.NET 3.0 you can call an sql procedure and join the result set to a
database table. In RPG you cant read the result set.

-Steve

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