RE: Another one bites the dust

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: rob@dekko.com
>
> You think that AS/SET will ever be upgraded to true ILE?  They now
> generate raw RPGLE code.  Very crudely.  They still rename all variables
> to get them down to 6 characters, that sort of rot.

It's going to depend on the market, I think.  I would dearly love to see
AS/SET (or any tool, for that matter) upgrade to allow the creation of
integrated service programs.  The AS/SET data model concept would be perfect
for that.  You'd define the data model, then let AS/SET generate a
completely encapsulated service program that supported not only basic CRUD
(Create/Read/Update/Delete) requests, but also different levels of queries.
This would then be an extenstion of the data model itself, and when hyou
included a data model in a program, it would actually code calls to the
service programs rather than the actual file I/O operations.

Wouldn't THAT be a gas?

Joe