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On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alternatively (and probably better) create a small DB2 table that holds all constant definitions and actually attach a trigger that regent both RPG and CL (and even COBOL!) on any update.
As cool as Denis's polyglot solution is, I would go this route. If
these really are supposed to be systemwide constants, then the
system's database is the most sensible place for them to be. (There
are plenty of production systems out there that actually store their
constants in a table, and any programs that use them just read them
straight from there at init time! No /copy or /include at all for that
purpose!) And manually maintaining two lines of code for every
constant (or more, if you have more languages to support) doesn't feel
quite right.
John Y.
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