RE: WRKOBJLCK automated API ?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mac asked for an approach to fix the problem.  It would require programming
no matter what.  I offered my opinion that record locks were architecturally
unsound.  I don't think there's an argument there.  You can't use corporate
philosophy to measure the strength of a design. Corporate policy does NOT
dictate good architecture - it simply decrees whether or not a good
architecture is economically viable.

As to the realities of whether a given approach is economically feasible or
not, that's an issue to be taken up in each individual instance.  There's
always a way to justify bad programing practices.  I just try to make sure
that people realize that they ARE bad practices, and that there are
alternatives.

When management says, "program it this way," I like to give programmers the
ability to say, "that's bad programming," and be able to back it up.  I
recognize reality hurts sometimes, but it's better to have the facts.

Joe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of D.BALE@handleman.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:25 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: WRKOBJLCK automated API ?
>
>
> With all due respect, Joe, the *USE* of the methods you describe
> are clearly
> the exception rather than the rule in the real world.  Whereas,
> most of us are
> smart to handle the record locking issues now for any new
> development, what
> *reasonably* can be done for all the legacy code out there that
> was written
> without the benefit of our superior wisdom?
>
> In some cases it may come down to: "You want to spend HOW much
> money to fix
> something that occurs a few times a year/month/week/day?  Just
> tell the users
> to never leave their desk without the menu showing."  Or some such drivel.
>
> Just my .02.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
> D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>

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