Ill weigh in with my 2 Cents - Jim is 1000% right on this point.
As an admin, I'll write my own CLLE's (basic stuff) and/or SQL's (query's in the old days which I converted to SQL) to help myself do the job or to research whatever it is I might be doing / data extracts for users every so often.
Other than that, dev for me, is a snooze-fest. Although I enjoy working with developers.
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1. Re: CL/REXX Was: valid 5250 character set (Jim Oberholtzer)
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date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 11:02:37 -0500
from: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: CL/REXX Was: valid 5250 character set
I'm not opposed to RPG in and of itself, I use it. But RPG requires yet another skill set, and frankly, most admin folks don't know RPG nor do they want to. Even suggesting Python to them is equivalent to asking them to dance with snakes. You have development skills beyond many if not most admin folks, so suggestions RPG and/or SQL stored procedures, while worthwhile and would solve the problem, won't work in most cases. Where the Admin is really a developer that's forced to do the admin, that individual does not want to spend their precious development time on mundane (to them) admin tasks, so they won't do it.
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Jim Oberholtzer
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