RE: Function Opinion

That's fine as long as you know which developers are working on what
modules, or your change control software handles it.

If the modules are checked out and worked on by different developers in
their own libraries, when one of the developers create the service program,
they might not know about the changed module in the other developer's
library.  This could result in the service program only having the changes
of the last developer to create the service program.

Having 1 function/service program greatly simplifies any maintenance tasks
as only one developer can work on a service program at a time.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 October 2003 16:28
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Function Opinion


darryl.mavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The main advantage for having one function per service program is
> maintainability.  It can get a bit messy if 2 developers try to modify
> different functions in the same service program.

That's really no advantage ... the two developers are actually working 
on modules, and then putting their modules in a service program.  Just 
have them put 1 function per module, and bind all the modules into 1 
service program.  You can rebuild or update the service program quickly.

Of course, there's really no reason to just put 1 function in a module 
... just make sure related functions are in the same module.  Chances 
are that two developers are not going to be working on the same logical 
function at once.

david


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