Re: the ASSET issue again

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

from Al Macintyre 405 CD

I recognize that the official SSA policy is that you will supply us with the 
source code, so we can do whatever we want to try to do, but you reccommend 
that if we want to do modifications we would be more productive to be doing 
them in AS/Set.  That is an arguement that has not sunk into my management & 
I doubt that it ever will in the near future, so I am having to modify 
programs in RPG that were created by AS/Set, or in a few cases of mods asked 
for ORD500 & ORD570 where I have had to tell my users.

Yes, I can do this modification that you have requested, but it means that I 
will be doing nothing else for several YEARS, while in the same time frame, I 
can do hundreds of enhancements in other areas ... I refuse to proceed on 
this until you get approval from management for me to drop everything else 
for several YEARS so that I can do this modification that would be simple if 
we had AS/Set.

But perhaps it would not take YEARS, if I first developed some software to 
analyse the AS/Set outputted RPG code and add to it what the heck is this & 
what the heck is that, since most of the time I need for some of these 
programs is looking up explanations that are within the software library.

In fact tools, such as I say I think I need, may already be available to 
sites that cannot justify the price of AS/Set, or have some other reason why 
I cannot have it.

novakg@ssax.com writes:

> Also in response to Al - as regards message literals. They are also used so
>  that we can provide customers in other countries a translated version of 
the
>  literal, so they can see the message or screen in their native language,
>  rather than in English. It is not allowed to 'hard code' a literal into a
>  program for this very reason. Ease of change is secondary in this case.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies
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