Re: Prototyping

Hans,

I didn't realize that the cross-language version would take days and the other 
would take months.  I do wish that something would be delivered and I can't 
imagine how it takes three years of negotiation to get something that will take 
days to implement approved.  I have a few weeks in workarounds.

David Morris

>>> boldt@ca.ibm.com 09/28/00 07:36AM >>>
David wrote:
>Sometimes it is better to get it done than wait until you no longer need
it.
>I would have saved at least 100 hours if this was in place three years
ago,
>now my potential savings is probably less than 20 hours.  I have much
>more confidence in the RPG developers than the embedded SQL developers
>and would not use them to estimate the RPG developer's solutions.

In this case, I think Richard is right - this has to be done right.

RPG could spend months implementing some scheme that's RPG-RPG only,
that would have to be supported forever, and that would be incompatible
with any possible future system support.  (And so too could COBOL.)

Or we could spend days to support some ideal cross-language solution.

Have a nice day!

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


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