Re: re-reading records in CL (not after EOF!)

On Saturday 21 June 2003 03:31, Alan E. wrote:
> May I emphatically agree with using RPG instead of CL for
> this. CL was not intended for even the most minimal level of
> complexity in file processing. Or for very much heavy
> programming, for that matter.
>
> Whereas RPG, well, now... You can do pretzel-like loops
> through your file! You can now open even *more* than fifty
> files at *one time*!

Hi Alan

Yes, I know this would have been easy in RPG, but in this case CL is 
justified (IMHO). It's part of our backup suite to handle our 3494 tape 
library and I want to run a bunch of CL commands. It seemed odd to use 
RPG just to read an input file then do nothing but a series of QCMDEXC 
calls. It also helps that CL commands show up in the joblog (if so set) 
whereas commands run through QCMDEXC in RPG don't usually. 

And besides, I *like* programming in CL <g>.

Regards, Martin
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