RE: OCL Documentation

I got my letter from SSA earlier this year about being eligible to collect Social Security now. And with the new health care law provision allowing early retirees to get affordable insurance I'm seriously considering taking them up on it next summer.

I also have my printer spacing ruler, which doesn't work so well with the proportional printing. As well as printer and screen layout forms. I sometimes use the backs of these for note taking. I still code everything in writing before starting WDSc or (shudder) SEU. I find a lot of errors while writing and entering the code (not all, mind you, but a lot).

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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If a man can beat you, walk him. -Satchel Paige


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:00 AM
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And pretty soon, that'll be gone, too. :-))

I'm at the point where I'm thinking about getting out of IT altogether.

Paul Nelson
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Cell 708-670-6978
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:44 AM
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Oh, I still have my debugging templates. About the only thing they're good
for is as a quick reference for the Output edit codes (after 35 years I
still can't recall any from memory except 'J').

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter. -Satche Paige


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Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:25 PM
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Heh. I just uncovered a folder containing RPG II debugging templates.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:54 PM
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Ironic, but I tossed all of my /36 manuals about a month before I applied
for my current job. Ironic because we live in the 36 environment here. The
only thing I still have (must have overlooked it when I was cleaning up) is
the Procedures and Commands summary. I could swear (and often do) that I
had a link to an OCL manual. But the closest I can come right now is a S/32
manual at www.bitsavers.org. It doesn't even cover ?R? (that I could find).
Maybe the /32 didn't have prompting.

The worst case of substitution and parameter passing I ever saw was an IBM
package on the /34. Proc-A might have // INCLUDE PROCB ?1?,?2?,?3? and
Proc-B might then have // INCLUDE PROCC ?2?,?1?,?4R? so that by the time you
got to PROCC what was parameter 2 is parameter 1 to that procedure, etc.
Really ugly and a pain in the arse to debug.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well, God is getting an earful today. -Jim Murray on the death of Casey
Stengel


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:01 PM
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It retrieves it from the screen IF it wasn't passed in. For example, if
your procedure name is DUDE then you could type in
DUDE A,B,D,E
?1? = A, ?2?=B and so on.


Rob Berendt