Re: AS/400 shareware/utilities - was RE: File editor Freeware

What we really need is something similar to the gnu libraries in unix/c

IBM has a ton of API's out there but you need to be an expert programmer
to get them to work (or copy an example)  A library of procedures to
make these EASY to use for everyone would go a long way towards
improving programmer productivity

John Hall

Joe Teff wrote:
> 
> >Simple wrappers for API's would be great start.  I've built a dozen or so
> >myself and everytime I feel like I must be reinventing the same wheel that
> >has probably already been written and tested in a hundred other shops.  If
> >they were available in a package or as shareware, it would save everyone a
> >great deal of time.
> >Maybe someone like Brad could keep them on his page and everyone could
> >contribute to it.  I think I've seen him offer that before.  Or, Cozzi has.
> >Even if a dozen different SendMessage procedures accumulated there.  They
> >would be like VB Tools where you can find forty-seven different listboxes.
> >Pick your favorite, why rewrite it?  Why should I have to waste tons of
> time
> >trying to figure out how to write the best random number generator, it
> there
> >14 of them to pick from.
> >It would seem that after as many years as ILE has been out, there should be
> >thousands of useful procedures available by now.  Where are they?
> 
> Actually, they are quite a few out there. You just have to know where to
> look. I
> recently got into some CGI programming using RPG. I used Brad's MC articles
> quite a bit. He referenced some procedures he used to wrap APIs. I
> downloaded
> this code and used his procedures. Along with it came a procedure to convert
> an alpha field to a numeric feild. Now it's not a tremendously complicated
> peice
> of code, on the other hand it is quite handy and I didn't have to re-invent
> it. It
> would be great if there was a simple catalog that would list (and describe)
> all
> peices of code available and give a reference to where they are at. I would
> love
> to sift through all of the sites and compile all of the code in a single
> place.
> Unfortunately, the time needed would be too great. I've saved all of the
> code
> peices that have been posted to Dave's lists and still haven't found time to
> catalog all of them. Any free time in the near future is going to be spent
> on
> learning Java (and JavaScript for some web coding).
> 
> Joe Teff
> 
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