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On 21-Jul-2014 09:28 -0500, John R. Smith, Jr. wrote:
Based on the comment "there are problems for which MI is a better fit
than RPG", can you give me some specifics?
One example: Creating a somewhat efficient OPM program [with almost
no automatic or static storage] to execute one or a few particular MI
instruction(s); created instead as an OPM RPG, then there would be a
significant amount of unnecessary code that was generated as part of the
RPG compiler to perform under the RPG run-time environment. I have a
couple times, found that availability helpful when I want to extend the
capability of a CLP or an SQL request; e.g. the CVTCH instruction, with
the capability to convert a string of even-numbered human-readable
hexadecimal digits into the equivalent character string of half that
length, something which neither the CL nor SQL provide an equivalent
capability.
Other examples typically involve implementing some activity, that
although already provided by some APIs, the API interfaces are at least
somewhat inefficient for the desired purpose. For example one could
probably create and utilize a space or utilize independent index support
more efficiently than the respective User Space or User Index support
provided via API.
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