Re: Service programs: navigation -- MIDRANGE-L

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"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/16/2017
01:45:16 PM:

This leads to another point that has bothered me. How is the inventory
of Service Program functions documented? How does a programmer
navigate through the dozens of service programs and find the one that is

exactly right? Or, not finding one exactly right, does s/he write a new

one, modify an existing one, or copy and change an existing one? In
early days that would seem like not much of a task, but after 8 years
and 15 different programmers involved, it must become a bird's nest?

What we did here isn't perfect, but I created a wiki so that we
could document service programs, modules, and procedures along with their
descriptions, calling examples, parameter descriptions, and other useful
information. The wiki is searchable, of course, but it still requires
programmers to first document their work and then to actually use the wiki
search functionality before creating new service procedures.

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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