Re: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

In my experience there is one important evaluation that must be carefully weighed. That is "Is this entire application badly outdated and lacking in today's needs and abilities?" Trouble signs might include numeric fields that are not large enough, sub-fields that need to be added, whole realms of additional business rules and regulations, and error handling and messaging. Designing a new from the bottom-up application could well surprise users and lower new user learning curves by more than enough to pay the cost of a re-write.


On 11/1/2016 5:16 PM, Jerry Adams wrote:

That was 1983 at the Fall COMMON Conference in Phoenix.

To your question about "how" the change occurred: I'm still ruminating.
Offhandedly I'd have to guess that something changed on either the system or
the device. Mere power outages, no matter how severe, would not account for
it.

As to Rob's issue with RPG36 (i.e., II), I agree. At least as regards "new"
programs. I would not rewrite an RPG II program for a simple few lines fix;
that would be silly. New stuff, of course, should always be in ILE RPG
(unless, of course, Cobol is your bag). I've followed some @#$%
consultant(s) around TN who told their clients that "Well, since you're
sunning 36E, (a) we can't rationalize the DB and (b) everything has to be in
RPG II."

Jerry C. Adams
We can't be too careful in the choice of our enemies. -Oscar Wilde
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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Justin Taylor
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Subject: RE: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

It specifies:
// PRINTER NAME-x,DEVICE-P5,PRIORITY-0,LINES-42,FORMSNO-y

I have no idea what it "should" say. I'm not sure I was even born yet when
S/36 was released.



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Subject: Re: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

Justin,

Now I'm curious. What kind of error are you getting? Is this because of
some OCL hard
coded printer file(s)? (// printer name-output,device-P5) Something
like that?
Because if that's the case shouldn't those be coded to point to outq's not
devices?
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