Re: Modular design

I think that you will be just fine the way it is. If you are in a real
performance pinch such as a batch job that calls a routine to validate a GL
account number then you would want to make that a module. But in your
example I would encourage you to leave your programs as is. The user is not
going to notice the increased interval between program calls of this nature.

Eric

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


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tufankjian" <Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: Modular design


> I'm just getting my feet wet with RPGLE and I have a design question.   I
> have 3 workstation programs, pgma, pgmb, pgmc.  Each one processes one
> screen of a display file.  Pgma is a subfile program where the user can
> drill down and it calls pgmb.  Pgmb is a subfile program also where the
> user can drill down and call pgmc.  Pgmc is not a subfile program.
>
> Right now I have pgma as a regular rpg400 program doing a regular
non-bound
> call the pgmb.  Pgmb and pgmc are bound
> together and pgmb does a function call to a procedure in pgmc.  All the
> programs are in activation group QILE.
>
> Also, I am calling pgma from a cl program which does a rclactgrp QILE
after
> the call to pgma so that all the files are closed.  Can't I do this from
> the rpg program pgma?
>
> Is there a better way to group the modules?
>
> clpgm
>      |
>      |__pgma
>      |           |
>      |           |_pgmb
>      |                  |
>      |             pgmc
>      |                   procedure(DspSalesData)
>      |
>      |__rclactgrp
>
>
> tks!
>
>
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