Re: IBM's VARPG - What can it and cant it do. -- MIDRANGE-L

Do you have access to the vendor's new version during development??
To me that would be the biggest problem. 
If you do have access, you update the VARPG app in development.
Test it and so forth.  Then when the weekend comes update the
objects on the LAN server where you have the VARPG app installed.
It will probably take you longer to install the new version of 
the vendors software than it would take to update the VARPG
objects.

If you have the VARPG app installed locally on the PCs, it gets a 
little more indept.  You then have to repackage the VARPG app
and then go to each PC and update the app there.

So we did not have to touch every PC, we went for the LAN install.
The other thing you could do is write a VARPG menu app that
front-ends all the other VARPG apps.  This menu app could check
an apps version number and then do the update atuomatically if
it is needed.  Granted this would take some interesting coding.
One reason why I have not actually written it myself. But I am
thinking about doing it.

-- Scott P. Johnson

Rob Berendt wrote:
> 
> Let's you have 200 people using an application using VARPG.  This
> application is an addon to a purchased application.  Now you plan
> on upgrading the vendors version.  You want to implement this over
> a weekend.  You do have the liberty of scheduling this weekend out
> a month.  What would your steps be?
> 
> sjohnson@highsmith.com on 06/01/99 01:20:35 PM
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> Subject:        Re: IBM's VARPG - What can it and cant it do.
> 
> The simplest answer to that question is to do the turorials.  The one
> that comes with it and the on the web one.
> Also go thru the samples that comes with it.
> This should give a good in sight as to what it can do and maybe
> can't do.           http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/varpg
> 
> I have used it quite a bit.  It can do LOTS.  You can read AS/400
> files just like you can with a RPG IV pgm on the 400. Plus, you
> can access flat files and ODBC enabled files on the PC/Network.
> And with the latest release you can use ActiveX.  This pretty
> much opens you up to a whole new world.  And talking about a
> new world, you can now generate Java with the new version.
> IBM justs keeps making it better and better with each release.
> They also tend to release new things in their Service Packs.
> So, VARPG is always changing and getting better.  IBM is always
> coming up with new ways to make your VARPG coding a lot easier.
> 
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Scott P. Johnson
> Programmer/Analyst
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
> Highsmith Inc.
> W5527 Hwy 106, PO BOX 800
> Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-0800
> TEL:  920-563-9571                FAX:  920-563-7395
> sjohnson@highsmith.com
> www.highsmith.com
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> 
> Colin Williams wrote:
> >
> > Im planning on tinkering with VARPG, and want to know what VARPG can and
> > cannot do, what it does very well, and what it does badly.
> >
> > Colin.W
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