Re: CL arithmetic -- conclusion

Nice idea,

but i think it's leading to a dead end.

Of course, a command is a convenient method to call a program, but it does
more. Parameters can be validated and so on. Special values may be
translated to other values.

IBM would be fenced in, if we start to call the CPP's. IBM is and shall be
free to change CPP's in any way they like; the command should be the same.
If they add a new parameter, we do not have a problem with commands. We
would with calling a CPP.

The better solution for such RTV-tasks (and many other tasks!) are APIs.
That's what IBM wants us to use. Performance is better and we can retrieve
often much more info than the RTV-cmd's do show us.

And it's not so hard as it might appear in the beginning.

--
Anton Gombkötö


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Von: "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@attglobal.net>
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Jänner 2000 08:57
Betreff: Re: CL arithmetic -- conclusion


> Joe,
>
> I've thought the same thing myself.  Under the ILE concept, it would be
nice use
> RTVxxx command within RPG. My first thought might be a CL calc spec ....
whoa,
> wait a minute, did I say ILE?
>
> You bet I did.  Let me ask this: is there an ILE CMD?
>
> I don't think so, but those CMD members do call some sort of program.  Now
if that
> program (RPG/CL/PLI/C)  is an ILE module why couldn't you call, from RPG,
what the
> command calls?
>
> Now I haven't done this, but if one did a DSPCMD of OVRDBF to find out
what the CPP
> was, why not call the CPP from your RPG program and not worry about doing
command
> calls?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Joe Teff wrote:
>
> > <<snip>>
> >
> > As far as doing the CL commands inside RPG, I do that as much as
> > possible myself. Just wished that I could use RTVxxx commands in RPG and
> > get the variable returned.
> >
> > Joe Teff
> >
>
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