RE: Procedures are FUN!

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: David Gibbs
>
> Why not just have OvrDbf format the command and call QCMDEXC itself?
>
> That way you've hidden the implementation and the invocation.  As a first
> level consumer, I don't care HOW something is done, I just care that it IS

Because this is old RPG III code slowly being moved into the new world.  If
I wrote it from scratch, I'd probably go a level higher, and just pass in a
an ID and a file type and let the called procedure determine the appropriate
fields to use.  Something like:

callp  OverrideFile('INFILE':PgmID:FileType)

'INFILE' is the name of the file in the program, PgmID is the identifier for
the program, and FileType is the type of file to override to, such as
original source, converted source, and so on.  The procedure would use the
PgmID to get the information about the program, and the FileType to
determine which file I was overriding to.

But I like your idea about burying the QCMDEXC call.  Who knows, I may go
through the code and do that at a later date.

Joe