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

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Tom Liotta
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:31 PM
>
> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >   9. RE: Would anybody know of a way, from a CL program, . . .
> >      (Dan Bale)
> >
> >Still feeling the need to play devil's advocate here... <g>
> >
> >Who will maintain this after you move on / retire / buy the farm?
> >
> >I have plenty of skeleton templates for different types of
> >DDS-based display applications, so I'd debate the relative merits
> >of having the same type of template for *PNLGRP.
>
> Who will maintain it? I'd guess almost anyone could who was
> generally competent.

Having been through the grinder for having written a "straight" application
in RPG-IV in an RPG-III-only shop a few years ago, and still seeing managers
being nervous about embedded SQL, it is not so much a matter of being
"generally competent" as it is to be able to expect that anyone on the
programming staff can fix a bug or make a modification without having to
spend hours learning how to do it, especially when it has to be done
"yesterday".

Now, if using *PNLGRPs became a shop standard, that'd be another matter
altogether.

> Start with the basic "templates" beginning with the figures noted
> above and expand from there. Sure _sounds_ simple... but somehow
> I keep imagining a UIM version of RLU!

Really Lousy Utility!

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