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Frankenprogram? I like that!
-----Original Message-----
From: Buck Calabro [mailto:kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:08 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: INTEGER & VARCHAR() on I-specs
On 1/15/2016 11:53 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
“… since I need the I-spec indicators.” - <Shudder><Sigh><Sob>
I've been doing this almost as long as you have, and I'm wicked comfortable not only with indicators on input specs, the full cycle, and also matching record. The time and effort it takes me to maintain the tiny tweaks to this code is tiny compared to the mammoth effort to rewrite it all from scratch and hope I got everything.
The honest truth is that this beast perfectly fits the existing business process. The actual problem is that the business process is based on daily transaction files from outside parties - files which need to be matched to our master files.
If I could convince those outside parties to modernise, I could modernise too. But right now, Frankenprogram is the best fit to the business process that's in daily operation.
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--buck
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