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  • Subject: Re: Is anyone using ILE?
  • From: HankHeath@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 15:07:00 -0400 (EDT)

The guy in the cowboy hat asked:

>> I am curious how many people are actually using ILE to develop their
applications.  I have several questions:

>> Are you using RPG IV or ILE COBOL?  If so, are you just experimenting or
are
you developing all of your new code in RPG IV or ILE COBOL? <<

In the shops that I have seen, the answer is "no" and "no." Most of the
programmers, with whom I have discussed this issue, are of the opinion that
ILE is just a "fancy" form of the languages with no discernible advantages
for them. I know, I know - they are ignorant fools, but they are following
Maslow's premise that a person who has a hammer as a tool sees all problems
as a nail. 

>> Are you just taking PDM option 14 (CRTBNDRPG or CRTBNDCBL) to compile your
RPG IV and ILE COBOL programs or are you using PDM option 15 (CRTRPGMOD or
CRTCBLMOD) to create modules, followed by a CRTPGM to bind the modules into
a program object.

>> Are you using service programs?

>> Are you running your RPG IV code in the default activation group or are
you
using named activation groups, *NEW, or *CALLER?

>> Are you using binding directories?

>> Are you using binder language?

>> And finally, are you using data management scoping? <<

The answers to these are obvious in view of the first answer. One point that
I want to add is that the "progressive" shops in Philadelphia are just
starting to embrace embedded SQL in their RPG and COBOL programs. Of course,
these same shops are running on V3R1 or - begrudgingly - V3R2. This is not to
say the Philadelphia is a backwater by any means. The shops that I have
visited are battle weary. They have been beaten up so solidly by bleeding
edge technology that they are happy to follow a couple of years behind the
current leading edge to see what shakes out. 

Perhaps you should conduct a COMMON session on trailing edge techniques. It
might be fascinating to see the turnout.

>> I'll try to tabulate the results of this survey.  Thanks in advance for
your
responses.


>> Charlie Massoglia, Massoglia Technical Consulting, Inc.
>> PO Box 1065, Okemos, MI 48854, USA
>> 517-676-9700  Fax: 517-676-1006  EMAIL: cmassoglia@voyager.net <<

Hank Heath
Vice President
Medco Systems, Inc.
3 Eves Dr
Suite 304
Marlton, NJ 08053
ph: 215-751-5913
fax: 609-596-8650


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