RE: Design shift of view

[Joe Teff <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

James W. Kilgore wrote:

[snip]

> Dare I say that display files are not "files", but program components and 
>should behave
> accordingly?   If we can perform an update with commitment control to 
>multiple files, why
> couldn't a compiler perform the same "unit of work" commitment control to 
>program
> components?

[snip]

Could we get rid of display files all together? Some type of action in SEU 
(like a function
key) would cause SDA to be invoked. The display file code would become part of 
the
RPG program. The compiler would generate the 5250 data stream. Writing RPG would
then be more like the visual development tools (only in the fact that you work 
on the screen
and program code at the same time).

Joe Teff
Information Technology Consultant
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
Quality Data Systems
Minneapolis, MN

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