RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can her reaction be a surprise? He's gone and suddenly she has a non-useful
application and bosses breathing down her neck. 
 
In a perfect world all IT shops would have 20% or more of programmer time
budgeted for training. But alas... it will never happen.
 
 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:26:28 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures
 
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Another horror story I have heard in the past year - another colleague
of mine had written a stand-alone application completely in RPGIV. He
even designed his database with 10-character field names and date and
time fields. He used sub-procedures. Then he cut his hand with a
band-saw and was out on medical leave for 2 1/2 months.
 
Needless to say, one of his managers had to make a change to his app.
She didn't understand any of it, so, she re-wrote the entire thing in
RPG/400. When he came back off of medical leave, he was told he could
not use any RPGIV at all, ....
 
Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.
913-492-9202 x41