Re: Open Access for RPG

I'm sorry Henrik - but this is just plain silly.

In what _possible_ universe is your 8+ lines of code below simpler than:

CHAIN ( key1 : ... : keyN ) DMREG;

Of course you can write your own handlers and I know you've done it. But you are completely missing the point. YOU ARE NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE. Sorry to shout but I want to be clear. You are a very sophisticated programmer - you are a handler _writer_ - and I'd love to see you adapt some of your UI and XML code as handlers so that others could do as easily the things that you (but not them) already find easy.

If you can't understand that difference then there is no point in discussing this further.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:32 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

excuse my, but the interface to a file handler is easy ...

eval DMDMNO = 123456
eval FILE = 'DMREG'
eval OPCD = '*CHAIN'
call 'MYHANDLER'
parm FILE // file
parm OPCD // operationcode
parm RTCD // returncode
parm DMREC // datainterface
if RTCD = '*OK'
*** do something
else
*** do something else
endif

and the underlying handler is also simple ....