Re: RE: how to find which are RPG cycle programs

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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how much- and hope I'm not out of date.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
> >
> > <clip>
> > i ve bunch of programs like RPGLE ,RPG38,RPG  programs in my
> > library ..how can i find out which are RPG Cycle programs?
> > <clip>
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