Re: Is this the University of Midrange.com? (was Re: Comp in DDS)

It depends on the shop. Where I am, this is a growing diverse company, over 250 
mill in sales and growing, Some customers include the largest stores in the 
world who we do products for in their label, getting by on 1 Programmer, 1 very 
new programmer, 1 apps mgr. That's it. (there are also 1 EDI person, and 
network people).
The mgr. feels that the code must be as small as possible, as the mgr. might be 
called in the middle of the night to fix something, and feels that the less RPG 
to have to decipher, the better. 
IMO they are understaffed, but that is not the point. the reality dictates the 
policy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Magnuson [mailto:gmagnuson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004, 1:53 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Is this the University of Midrange.com? (was Re: Comp in DDS)
> 
> Are there any good reasons to validate in DDS?
> 
> I have come to accept as my "programming style" to
> NEVER validate in DDS. And after this discussion, I
> believe that may be the correct decision...
> 
> 
> 
> Simon Coulter (shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> >
> > And the lesson is: You cannot do all data validation in DDS. Indeed
> > there is a valid argument that you shouldn't do any validation in DDS.
> > However, reading the DDS reference for the data validation keywords and
> > writing some experimental code would have given you a useful learning
> > experience and you would probably have clarified your requirements and
> > finished the task long before now.
> >
> > Last word from me on DDS-101 questions (and after a wander around the
> > ziplip.com web site my sus-filter is active).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon Coulter.
> 
> --
> Gerald Magnuson
> The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
> Quincy Illinois
> 
> 
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