RE: ILE philosophy

Rich,
replies inline.

Scott Mildenberger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Duzenbury [mailto:rduz@westernmidrange.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:54 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com; rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: ILE philosophy
>
>
> At 10:26 AM 9/19/02, Buck Calabro wrote:
> > >Is the service program approach really
> > >the bees knees?
> >
>
> Right now, my biggest issue with the whole deal comes down to
> managing the
> service programs.  Say I create a new module, I've got to recreate the
> service program that it should reside in.  I've got to update
> my binder
> language source first - by hand it would appear.  Then
> CRTSRVPGM -- and I
> have to retype all of it's constituent module names.  If there are 100
> modules, yuck.  I'm sure to forget one.

I have a unique binding directory for each service program that is used in
creating the service program.  These are the only binding directories that
have modules in them.  This way it is very easy to recreate a service
program, if a new module is needed just add it to this binding directory.
Updating the binder source by hand is very easy, takes me an average of 14.7
seconds :)

>
> If I just update a module, I have to UPDSRVPGM - provided I
> didn't change
> the interface to any routines.  I don't see a great way to
> automate the
> process -- it would be easy to break.
>

UPDSRVPGM is so easy to do I don't really see much of a need to automate.

> A 'make' utility might go a long way towards making the system work
> efficiently.  Although I don't think a regular make utility
> (as I'm used to
> seeing them on other platforms) could effectively deal with
> updating the
> binder language source -- at least out of the box.
>

Some of the change management tools may automate this for you although I
don't have any experience with them.  I don't see the real need as the
process is rather simple.  I think you are making it seem more complicated
than it really is.  If you follow the guidance of this list and experiment
with some examples I think you will eventually realize that it is not a big
deal.


> Are you manually managing the binder language source?  What,
> if any, tools
> are there to help?
>

As I said earlier, it is very easy to manage the binder source by hand.

Scott Mildenberger