RE: Would anybody know of a way, from a CL program, . . .

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / James H H Lampert
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:17 PM
>
> > If IBM is so high on UIM, why don't we have a tool like SDA to help with
> > the design?
>
> Well, consider an analogy: Display files specify exactly where everything
> goes. They're like a Postscript or PDF file. UIM panel groups give the
> operating system a general idea of how to present the data, but lets it
> hash out the details on its own. They're like HTML documents.

OK, so where's the Dreamweaver of UIM? <g>

> And I don't think maintenance is likely to be an issue with something as
> narrow of purpose as the project at hand. Nor is it terribly likely to be
> all that difficult, given that the CL and PNLGRP source members are only
> about a page apiece.

Well, that may be part of the issue, since the one instance of UIM I've
played with has 650 records in it.  It was a WRKSPLF clone, and I wanted to
change option 9 to use CPYSPLF.  The basic function works, but there are
behavioral differences that tend to aggravate after you've thrown several
hours of effort to make it work similar to the way IBM's panels work.  Note
that this was at least 6 years ago, probably on a v3r2 system, maybe the
documentation has gotten better since then?

Maybe I'll just simply dream of better UIM documentation, better syntax
checking.  Is it possible to retrieve source from *PNLGRP objects?

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