RE: New to ILE -- MIDRANGE-L

Isn't this really about RPGLE source members?  If not, read no farther.
 
1- PDM, F16, add "CV".  The command that goes with it is "CVTRPGSRC
FROMFILE(&L/QRPGSRC) FROMMBR(&N) TOFILE(&L/QRPGLESRC) TOMBR(&N)"
 
2- Make sure you have QRPGLESRC in the library you like to learn in.
 
3- Find one of your own RPG programs thats simple and hasn't got a lot of
left-side indicators.
 
4- Use your newly created CV option on the RPG source
 
5-  Go to QRPGLESRC and browse through your first RPGLE program.   Prepare
to be amazed at how simple it was.
 
6- Go into the C-specs and pick a small section of calculations.  Comment
them out, then use the Eval OPCODE to write a new solution.
 
7- Compile your program and fix it all up.

Everything after that is just learn-as-you-go.  IBM has done a wonderful job
of not obsoleting your skills.
 
Good luck.
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:39:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: New to ILE
 
I have been reading the IBM online manuals. Is there some way to explain it
in laymens terms? 
For example. (I don't work in a perfect world). I want to write a simple Q&D
program, to inspect a file that comes from the warehouse management system,
PKMS. Sometimes the guys in the warehouse enter an incorrect volume amount,
or a file there had bad data in it. When the shipment info comes up to EDI,
I visually can see that there are some problems with the data that the
customer will reject, or worse, we would be telling the customer to being 3
trucks instead of 1. (For those familiar with EDI I am referring to the 753)
 Anyhow, I would write a final check program to make sure that the volumes
make sense to the weight of an item. This is done by looking up the weight
of the style, multiplying by qty, cartons, etc...
In traditional RPG, this is a very simple program. You are reading the file
that contains shipment info that will go into the EDI process. You are
taking the style number and for aguments sake, chaining against a logical
that has the style number as the key. When there is a problem encountered,
you produce an error warning listing, but you also go ahead and correct the
data as described above regarding the weight. 
In ILE, how would this simple program be accomplished?
"Hall, Philip" <phall@spss.com> wrote:Rob,
 
> I am reading about ILE and I cannot get a handle on it.

 
What source(s) are you reading about ILE from ? Perhaps we could suggest
other material to you.
 
--phil