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On 10/24/2014 5:26 PM, Matt Olson wrote:

My only problem with this, is if you go the SQL route within your RPG programs the code is atrocious. To many cursors and /EXEC SQL commands.

I feel like if your going to modernize your database, then you may as well pick a new language for your programs that can speak SQL better than the myriad of cursors and /EXEC SQL commands in an RPG program can do.

I think I could understand your argument better if I understood your
assumptions. I *think* I'm hearing you say that 'modernise' means 'move
to DDL and DML but leave the tables and their relationships as-is.'

Yeah, that'd be atrocious.

How about designing a new database, one with set-at-a-time access as the
base assumption? How about some brand new RPG programs with few if any
F-specifications and all of the access done via modern SQL using views
instead of contorted multi-way JOINs burned into the code? Or stored
procedures, shared with the web clients?

That's the route I've taken, along with triggers to keep the new
database in synch with the old, during the switch-over time. That seems
like a more workable definition of 'modern' to me.


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