Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

-----Original Message-----
From: R Bruce Hoffman Jr <rbruceh@ibm.net>

>Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:
>>
>>  >> So if I use your method then I will have to change the same in  many
a
>> places.
>>
>> I would suggest that you'd be better off isolating your DB access to a
single
>> point anyway.  The fact that we tend to have I/O spread all over the
universe is
>> a major contributor to the fact that many AS/400 apps get "hacked to
death" over
>> the years rather than changing the DB design to mirror changes in the
business.
>>
>> I don't believe that new features in the compiler should be constrained
to
>> accommodate old habits.
>>
>> Not that I feel strongly about this of course ..... <grin>
>
>ABSOFRIGGINGLUTELY!!
>
>But you and I both know, Jon, that this is a practice of COBOL
>programmers and embedded SQL users (who are generally not on the AS/400
>platform).
>
>Yes, there are probably quite a few who do it in rpg. Yeah, I can buy
>that:
>
>     c  readme      begsr
>     c  klist       chain     somefile   90
>     c              endsr
>
>*NOT*

MAPICS actually does this.  That's probably why no one else does it. <g>


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