RE: Using OO concepts in RPG

Point taken Tom.  My assumption was that since the report is prepared with
RPG, then the printing was relevant to RPG.  
 
Since then several posts have shown many choices whish are far better,
including extending Host Print Transform. 
 
Host Print Transform apparently isn't RPG.  
 
I'll move the thread.
 
 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:08:02 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Using OO concepts in RPG
 
rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
>(I am not campaigning for those two things only, but for the whole family
of
>what is needed for pretty printing. It may not be RPG, but I've never seen
>externally described printer files ever used with anything but RPG.)
 
And here is the kernal of the issue with this direction of the thread...
this simply isn't an RPG issue (and I mean ILE RPG since I started with real
RPG even before RPG II). Like it or not, there ARE other languages and
printer files CAN be externally described. For IBM to invest in improving
this area for a single compiler when alternatives exist is a waste of my
investment in the platform. I do not want improved printing 'in RPG'; I
simply want improved print capabilities regardless of the language that
refers to the printer file.
 
It's probably been ten years since I've defined a report 'in RPG'. Or in
COBOL or 'in' any other language other than DDS or QM.
 
Tom Liotta
 
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