Re: Re[2]: Using API's ? -- RPG400-L

Yes either 2.3 or 3.0.5 sounds about right and there were only a very few
APIs available. I agree that now the APIs seem to be really stable and that
backward compatiblity seems to be addressed. It's just one of those cases of
"once bitten twice cautious".

Thanks
Eric

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St
Tacoma WA 98407


----- Original Message -----
From: <pcunnane@learningco.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 6:35 AM
Subject: Re[2]: Using API's ?


>      If it was late 80's - early 90's, I would imagine it was verion 2 you
>      were using, or at best 3.0.5 (which was a jumped-up version 2 release
>      anyway).  In those days, there was one fairly slim API manual, and
IBM
>      were really only getting to grips with openness on the '400 anyway.
>
>      My experience in the last couple of years is that the AS/400 APIs are
>      a model of stability, with backward compatibility a very strong
>      priority.
>
>      ____________
>      Paul Cunnane
>      The Learning Company
>
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
_________________________________
> Subject: Re: Using API's ?
> Author:  "Eric N. Wilson" <doulos1@home.com> at InterNet
> Date:    09-09-99 9:51 pm
>
>
> Yes Scott it did happen to me and remember I was not originally using the
> QSYSINC files. I was doing what you were recommending, creating beautiful
> headers of my own. I wish I could remember the exact API but I would
imagine
> it was one of the work management API's as that was the sort of thing my
> employer had me working on at that time (Late 80s early 90s). Programs
were
> working wonderfully one day and then after we installed a new release BOOM
> all sorts of things started blowing up. I found the common thread of
trouble
> and it was all related to one API. I ended up having to compare the
QSYSINC
> with my include and low and behold there was a difference (one good enough
to
> cause a decimal data error if I remember correctly) Again I am not sure
which
> version of the OS it was that caused this problem, but it definitely was a
> source of major grief.
>
> Second I never code my API programs in CL. Almost all my programs require
> the use of pointers or iterating over huge lists of things. CL is just way
> too inefficient when it comes to that sort of thing.
>
> Sorry that you doubt me... but I guess that is bound to happen sometimes.
>
> Sincerely
> Eric
>
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