Re: IFS in RPG

Hey, IBM is adding new keywords all the time!  How many have they added in
the last 5 years?  The latest that I know of EXTMBR() in V5R1.

I kind of like sticking with the F-spec.  That's one of the first places I
go in an unfamiliar program to see what it's doing.

Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Fritz" <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: IFS in RPG


> Hah.  You're introducing new keywords; that's not fair. <g>  AFAIK you
can't
> use string variables as record format names or file names for database
files
> without a select statement that translates.
>
> I don't see much value in being able to have a stream file name on an F
> spec.  I may be short sighted. <g>  If everyone writes different
procedures
> to do the things that the Unix Type file APIs do, it just means we're
> becoming like C programmers who ignore library functions.  The only thing
> I'd like to see would be bifs or standard prototypes for copying.  There's
> also opportunity for people to do the sort of thing David Morris is doing
> with utilities.  I've never understood why there are so few utility
> libraries available for RPG.  Might even be possible to sell them.