RE: The value of ILE

Similar experience with pricing. But at an earlier employer there were
sixteen [16!] programs that created UPCs. I was tasked with the job of
modifying them. Our program base was all RPG IV (no ILE) so I suggested
writing a single service program; at least that way, when future
maintenance was needed, we only had to go to one place. That suggestion was
86ed because neither I nor anyone else in the company had ever written a
service program.

But, admittedly, a service program wasn't 100% required; a simple CALL to a
program would have sufficed. Even that option was nixed.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Sims
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:37 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The value of ILE

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 23:32:55 -0600, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The example that I always use was the first service program that I
wrote in 1994..

Our company had an extremely complex method of calculating prices. It
took a lot of logic to come up with a price. What had been done
previously was the usual RPG III thing of putting the same logic with
different implementation in three different programs. To make a change
meant going to three different programs and changing three different
versions of the logic and retesting everything. Even the simplest
change was a mufti-week project.

Interesting. My first service program was also a pricing service program.
And it's still very much in use.

Ken
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
my employer or anyone in their right mind.
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