Re: What good is ILE?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That could be done with one line in an H spec, right? Specify a binding
> directory with all the service programs and/or modules. I think it would be
> better to have multiple binding directories, but it's possible.

right. But you still have to list it all.  In an RPG400 program you
dont have to list all the programs you are calling. And signature
violations terrify shops I have worked in. The OP mentioned
complexity. I think he is right in that ILE made programming harder.



> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:17 PM, w 4038 <window4038@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > What good is ILE??
> > >
> > > Before ILE, if you needed to call program B from program A, a simple CALL
> > > statement did the job.
> > > All you had to worry about was the library list and it was up to you to
> > > pass parameters correctly.
> > >
> > > Then IBM introduced ILE.
> > > Now you can worry about, Activation Groups,Binding Directories, Binder
> > > Language, subprocedures, service programs, Static Binding, Dynamic
> > Binding,
> > > Bind by Reference and some I can't recall right now.
> >
> > I agree with the complaint about the complexity of ILE.  The compiler
> > and OS should be able to abstract a lot of the complexity away. Should
> > not need procedure prototypes and binding source. Even binding
> > directories and the listing of service programs to bind to at create
> > time. Some sort of a system maintained directory of all the procedures
> > in all the service programs in a library could serve as the basis of a
> > way the system would find a procedure at run time.
> >
> > -Steve
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