Re: "If %scan(x:y)" is not valid???

Dan wrote:

Rob, it sounds like you are in a programmer's Nirvana.  I have just started to work in a shop does
the QA thing, all of it, and is open to consider using service programs, and I am pursuing this in
my free time.  Nothing gets coded here without detailed specs!!!  Our dev box was just upgraded to
v5r2, and our prod box will be next month.  Wow.

Dan

If I could suggest-- I recently left a shop that was working with essentially S/36 code that had been mangulated to RPG IV code. The turaround time for any changes was horriffic, 1) because the entire codebase was unreadable, and 2) the shop adheared to very strict FDA-inspired QA guidelines. (For those who don't know, if you ever have to work on an FDA validated system, quit. Run away. You'll never code again.) The QA folks were DEAD AGAINST any sort of change to coding methodology, including Service Programs.

I was so bored fixing RPG Evil that ended up taking matters into my own hands, and coded a service program that met an FDA regulatory requirement, and then demoed the code to QA, with the theme "How ILE Is A QA Tool"

My selling points? If you code the service program properly, you never ever have to test the bugger again unless you change something. Saves money.

If you need to change, add a new function, version stripe the service program with a new signature, recompile and rebind the affected bits, and test only that function. Reduces testing effort, money, and cycle time.

There was a lot of discussion, most of it tutorial, but they bought it, and now full ILE RPG programming is permissable at my old shop.

:::much cheering:::

Just thought I'd throw in my .02. It is possible to get QA onboard, but you gotta make it worth their while.

-Doc

- Dan


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