I have to disagree about RPG people not wanting to upgrade their skills. I
started on the System 3 and have been on the iSeries since it was called
Silverlake. I have kept up on all the changes and was one of the first in my
area to work on ILE and do a GUI program using ILE. I have also taken classes
in JAVA,VB,PL/SQL and others. Most of the people I know on the iSeries have
also kept up.
Thanks,
Lynda Eland
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date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:16 -0500
from: Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
subject: RPG / IFS and deleted records
I'm sure this is no surprise to some of you on this list...but I'm
processing a PF via IFS APIs (for a generic file program). It seems that
deleted records are processed as well as undeleted records. Does anyone
have a better solution than just bypassing the records that contain all
blanks in the returned data?
My RPG is pretty basic so I'll omit the IFS copybook stuff...
http://code.midrange.com/index.php?id=ca7de10425
when it hits a deleted record the data field is all blanks.
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
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subject: Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?
you willing to pay extra for those who hate cold weather ;-)
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
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Hi Mike,
I assume you are being sarcastic.
I'm not being sarcastic.
I'm currently looking to hire two RPG programmers, and haven't had many
responses. Of the 10 or so responses I have had, perhaps half of them
are from people with no RPG experience who figured they'd apply anyway,
just in case.
I'm an RPG advocate, and I often speak about the benefits of RPG. It's
very common to hear managers complain that they feel RPG is not a good
future direction because there's very little RPG talent. They have a
hard time finding RPG programmers. When they do, they're always older
people who they expect to retire within the next decade or so.
The other problem, of course, is that RPG programmers don't ever want to
upgrade their skills. This has led to the widespread opinion that RPG
is only for maintaining legacy green-screen software. But the lack of
talent is starting to eclipse this problem!
It really makes me sad.
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