Re: RPG Cycle -- MIDRANGE-L

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Trevor Perry wrote:

It is never appropriate - for one simple reason. If you have people who do
not understand the cycle in your environment, and you get hit by a bus....

I noticed there are still people writing blogs about the cycle and people
teaching RPG with the cycle. If you work for them, you may be forced to use
the cycle, but outside of maintenance, the RPG cycle should never be used..

Job security coding techniques are as out of date as the AS/400!

Puhleeze, Trevor! That has the same logic as saying, "Never use service programs because the next guy may not understand them."
The RPG cycle is featured prominently (Chapter 3, not some bloody appendix) of the, ahem, ILE RPG Language Reference manual (SC09-2508-06).
I have personally never written a process that used OPNQRYF, but I daresay that I could figure it out by reading the frigging manual.

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