RE: Clarify AS/Set?

[Doug Schneider <dschneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unlikely, that you will get a 100 fold increase in any programmer with any CASE 
tool or code generator.   I, myself could write code faster using RPG/DDS/CL 
than any AS/SET programmer could.

My vote would be for two.  TAATOOLS and ROBOT.  You could use the WRKJOBSCDE 
command for rudimentary job scheduling.  If you have dependent jobs, then ROBOT 
or IBM's Job Scheduler would be needed.  However, it is not difficult to write 
code that will submit the next dependent job.

-----Original Message-----
From:   MacWheel99@aol.com [SMTP:MacWheel99@aol.com]
Sent:   Friday, February 12, 1999 3:14 PM
To:     BPCS Users Mailing List
Subject:        Clarify AS/Set?

My understanding is that SSA uses this CASE tool to generate BPCS code and
programmers who are skilled in its use are more productive by an order of
magnitude of perhaps 100 times, than equally talented programmers working with
RPG CL DDS UIM & an alphabet soup of the other specialized pieces.

I put it on my wish list to management, along with ROBOT & TAATOOLS and enough
hard disk for commitment control.  I did not get any of that ... if I could
get just one, which is best for all users benefit?

I did not get AS/Set because our Y2K consultants told my boss that AS/Set was
for software houses doing heavy duty software development work like whole new
modules & applications, not the kind of tailoring & tinkering & adding a few
fields hither thither that we are likely to need.  Cynical me thinks they were
setting themselves up for more future contracts with them that will cost my
employer much more than AS/Set.

Am I out of touch with reality?

Case in point.  I need to make some relatively trivial modifications to ORD590
which looks to me to be a collection of AS/Setized programs that are extremely
difficult to reverse-engineer what the code is doing.  Many of the software
objects are 1000 pages of uncompiled code, without internal documentation of
any significance.

Al Macintyre
Central Industries of Indiana
Newcomer to RPG/400 but decades of experience on prior RPG such as S/36
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