Re: Making a program dynamic

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about a control file keyed by filename, user data and
other parts of the spooled file id.  Then, when you want to
execute another process, just add a new entry to the control
file.

Brad

On 1 Apr 2002 16:11:16 -0800
 Mike Wills <programmer@koldark.net> wrote:
> I am going to probe the great minds on this list for some
> ideas....
>
> I am looking at ways to make a program more dynamic. I
> have a program that will monitor outqs for spool files
> through a dataq and kick off a processing program. The
> processing program then runs hard-coded processes based
> on the spool file information. Several processes could be
> the same or similar, but they could also be very
> different. So every time I need to add another spool
> file, I need to modify this program, recompile and test
> it. I would like to try and make this program more
> dynamic to eliminate this need. Can this be done either
> via RPG or Java?
>
> What this processing program does is set up the
> information I need to create the file name and path from
> the job and spool file information in the dataq for me to
> make different files that are either located on the IFS
> or an FTP server. I would prefer a RPG solution but would
> also do this in Java.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> ---------
> Mike Wills
> AS400 Programmer
> programmerATkoldarkDOTnet
>
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