Re: RE: how to find which are RPG cycle programs -- MIDRANGE-L

Murali

Just curious and a little concerned. Does someone at your shop consider a so-called cycle program to be obsolete? If so, I believe they are misinformed. As someone else asked, what is the purpose of identifying these? If you want to "modernize" then, use CVTRPGILE or Linoma's tool The principle of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies.

There is no advantage to changing from primary processing to full-procedural, at least for its own sake. IBM has had the cycle (or program) processing around for almost 40 years. Does that make it bad? No, it makes it mature and well-seasoned. I'm over 40 years old - not telling how much- and hope I'm not out of date. Of course, my son sometimes says so.

My bias, if any, is clear. I've heard too many younger programmers poo-poo the cycle without really knowing what it is about.

No offence intended, just curious, if you can say why without jeopardizing yourself in any way.

About ABSTRACT, does it have its own search engine? HAWKEYE did. It could possibly find the F specs with a P in position 18, to give you the list. Even PDM's search can have the search range restricted to column 18 only. You'd likely get extra hits but would also get the ones you want.

Thanks

Vern

At 08:55 AM 6/27/2003 +0000, you wrote:

HaiDonald, Iam doing an analysis of a project which is having hell no. of objects to find out obsolete objects..Iam using a tool ABSTRACT,but that tool is unable to handle this RPG Cycle programs..I need a list of this Cycle programs under Analysis...I wanted to knoe how can I get list of RPG Cycle programs among all RPG Objects present in the system and make a DB2 file?...Thanks for ur valuable answers... Regards, Murali

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 Fisher, Don wrote :

Any RPG program can employ the logic cycle, including RPGIV (ILE to some).
The only way I know to identify a program that uses the logic cycle is to
inspect the source for a file defined as IP (input primary).

Out of curiosity, what will you do with this information?

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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i ve bunch of programs like RPGLE ,RPG38,RPG  programs in my
library ..how can i find out which are RPG Cycle programs?
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