RE: Better way to code a maintenence program ILERPG

Joel,

>>I guess it's a matter of taste, but I would never recommend DFU for anything
but something that's needed in less than an hour and will never be used for more
than a minute or two at a time.  The sad thing is, on a green screen, there
isn't anything any better than the IBM subfile with option fields.  PDM is as
good a model as any.<<

Although the original poster didn't specify the exact nature of the application,
it appeared to me to be a very simple maintenance task on a simple file that
would be rarely used and for only a few minutes at a time.  It appears that if
that were the case, you & I would be in agreement.

>>Any time you write a file maintenance program you have to consider data
integrity, sorting, and what the end users need.<<

Absolutely agreed.

- Dan Bale





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