RE: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Vijosh A wrote:
>Your idea is interesting.
>
>But let me draw your attention to a problem that comes to my mind- If
>suppose you do not have a KLIST and  as it often happens there are changes
>to key fields (although not frequently). So if I use your method then I will
>have to change the same in  many a places. Especially when you are using
>physical file fields in the KLIST. This may make maintenance difficult. So
>therefore I would still prefer to use KLISTS.

With the new approach, since expressions would be allowed,
we would have to relax the rule that requires exact length
match.  So when you change a key field in the file, you
only have to recompile.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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