Re: conversion to ILE

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

We've used Jon Paris from halinfo.  His email address is Jon.Paris@halinfo.it  
All 
of the members of our team who went through the course raved about the 
instructor.  
Even the people who are a little slow to adapt to new technology started diving 
right in.

I tried to use the ATS course.  It's good as a starter.  However no one here 
but me 
would take the course.  Also it doesn't cover procedures at all.

When you make a service program document each neat subprocedure that you write. 
 
Document it into a word processing package so well that they never have to look 
at 
the code to determine how it works.  I use the RPG manual as a reference as to 
how 
to document.  You know,  this is MOVE this is it's syntax.  This is how you use 
it.  
Here are some samples.  That kind of thing.

Be careful about generic string handling routines.  They can be a real 
performance 
killer.  I tried making a 'caps' procedure.  The procedure supported strings up 
to 
32,702.  It used the xlate function to do it.  You could do the following:
eval field = caps('abc')
However that took a LONG time to run because it had to check all 32,702 
characters.  
Better to do the xlate function in your own program.







RNANCE@commerceinsurance.com on 04/21/99 08:23:59 AM
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Subject:        conversion to ILE

hello out there,  my team is looking at doing a conversion to 
RPGIV/ILE as a step toward client server/OO thinking

how about a pointer to where I can find comments on :

procedures taken
education available
what to avoid ....

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