Re: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I understand how his library could be deleted.  What I don't understand is
why there was no backup of it.  What if it happened when he was still
working there?  Would he have lost all of his stuff?



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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09:46 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler

Hello Steve,

You wrote:
>One of the consultants where I was working had created programs in his own

>library and moved the objects to the production library without copying the

>source to the production source file. Then somebody deleted his library,

>containing the source code. We had them decompile a couple of printer

>files, display files, and RPG programs. I emailed to them a save file

>containg the objects, they decompiled them and sent back the source.


This is exactly why all IT shops should use a change management system. No
production objects should be compiled from source in a development library
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especially not a development library outside the CMS control. Even one-man
shops
should use a CMS.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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