Re: Programming Performance

Paul

At 11:22 PM 5/27/1998 -0400, you wrote:

-snip-

>Another thing to consider is a 'shutdown' parameter in the parm list.  If
>the value of SHUTDOWN = 'NO', the program will do a return with LR -off-.
>The program stays resident, files are open, and the next call will be
>quicker.
>
>If  SHUTDOWN = 'YES', the proram will turn on LR and quit.
>
>This will let the progrma stay open when needed, and shutdown gracefully
>when you're finished with it.

Again another option is to take advantage of being able to send different
numbers of parameters to an RPG program. It is, admittedly, a 'cute'
technique, requiring special, esoteric, knowledge. It happens to be a
technique many of our programs use. They have a return code, then a data
structure or several variables. If the parameter count = 1, this means
shutdown.

I agree—this is not an easy maintenance technique. It falls into that
category of 'CUTE', meaning unmaintainable. However, it's present in lots
of our stuff, mostly things generated by Genesis, a code generation tool
(won't say what I think of the product—oops, guess I kinda just did! <g>).

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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