Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:
> 
>  >> So if I use your method then I will have to change the same in  many a
> places.
> 
> I would suggest that you'd be better off isolating your DB access to a single
> point anyway.  The fact that we tend to have I/O spread all over the universe 
>is
> a major contributor to the fact that many AS/400 apps get "hacked to death" 
>over
> the years rather than changing the DB design to mirror changes in the 
>business.
> 
> I don't believe that new features in the compiler should be constrained to
> accommodate old habits.
> 
> Not that I feel strongly about this of course ..... <grin>

ABSOFRIGGINGLUTELY!!

But you and I both know, Jon, that this is a practice of COBOL
programmers and embedded SQL users (who are generally not on the AS/400
platform).

Yes, there are probably quite a few who do it in rpg. Yeah, I can buy
that:

     c  readme      begsr
     c  klist       chain     somefile   90
     c              endsr

*NOT*

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"
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