Re: AS/Set & 4GL curiosity

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    cpapp@merck.com.ar
>  
>  sorry, but I don't understand very well (or I don't want to undertand).
>  
>  What's the meaning of:
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>  >like you should aim for your foot,  eg.  in V4r3 and V4r4 the large RPG
>  >III (note not IV) sources created by AS/SET don't compile (I think it
>  >you need to do a manual convert to IV. because IBMs mods to IV when
>  >ported back to III overload certain size resrictions in III).
>  
>  IBM have a PTF for this (found it whilst searching the PTFs for anything
>  BPCS related).
>  I didn't bother with it as we don't touch AS/SET ourselves (or the source
>  generated by it).
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>  Are you saying that with o.s. V4R3 and V4R4 you create an as/set program
>  and rpg compiler couldn't compile it?
>  Don't you know which is the PTF number I should  to install?
>  
>  Thank you for more information.
>  Claudia

Yes, I have found that AS/Set produces some monster programs, like 50,000 
lines of RPG III source code before the external file layouts are introduced 
& apparently we are being told that this has gone over some limit of the RPG 
compiler ... I would be interested to know which programs, because I did 
re-compile ORD500 & ORD570 in 405 CD test environment at V4R3 just to see if 
certain modifications without AS/Set were even doable.  I have several users 
of these programs crying about the modifications they need & I tell them they 
are talking to the wrong person - I cannot do this with the tools so far 
provided to me - you need to make the case for me to get the tools to meet 
your needs.

Al Macintyre
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