RE: Subfile performance question

If you did have AS/SET generated programs that worked in this way, it
is
because the developer(s) did not use subfile functionality within
AS/SET
and instead actually developed this nightmare using AS/SET. Not the
fault of AS/SET.

That would fit the profile at the site, actually. Thank you; I feared I had
fallen even deeper into the insanity abyss.

If you so wish, AS/SET even has the functionality to generate the
required inquiry/maintenance programs for a given file. The generated
inquiry program is a subfile displaying the file records, with action
codes (1=Create, 2=Revise, 3=Copy, 4=Delete, 5=Display, 6=Print,
8=Position-to), the relevant CRUD actions linking to the maintenance
panel for the record.

Nice. I wasn't intentionally faulting AS/SET... just stating an observation
that seemed relevant to the conversation. Certainly (for those familiar
with the tool) it had some power, but my job was to relieve them of AS/SET
limitations (such as true date support) for enhancements to existing and
interface with new subsystems. I therefore saw the resultant mess, not the
cause.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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