Re: DFU Runtime

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Gary,

I assume that your menu is running a UPDDTA command instead of CHGDTA,
correct?

DFU runtime is just like any other utility/language - develop on 1 box,
save objects, run on another box

STRDFU and take option 2 - Create a DFU program.  taking all defaults will
produce a runtime program very much like those created by option 5 (or
UPDDTA), and there are a lot of other options to improve your DFUs.

creating a DFU program creates 2 objects: a *PGM and a *FILE (both with
subtype 'DFU') - the file is actually a display file.   save those objects
on the development box and restore on production.

Call the DFU runtime using the CHGDTA command.

as an aside, while DFU can very powerful and with practice, you can create
some pretty cool and very functional DFUs, they are possibly the #1
contributor to the myth that the as/400-iseries-i5 is old fashioned.  They
are not intuitive to use, offer very little in data validation and are just
plain UGLY.

but that's just my opinion.

Rick

--------original message-------
It seems like I something on the list at one time about being able to run
DFU as a runtime module on a machine that does not have the Application
Development Tools.  However, I can't find it anywhere in the archives.  My
problem is, we have moved our production to a second AS/400 and there are
a couple of DFU's on a menu for very simple updates.  We do not want to
rewrite these as RPG programs (My department used to be a staff of four
and we had temporary programmers coming in.  Now it's just me).  Isn't
there supposed to be some way to run DFU programs as a runtime without
needing Appication Tools?  If not it seems like it kind of defeats the
purpose...

We are running a 620 on V4R4.

Gary S. Lea