RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   4. RE: Benefits of Sub-procedures (rob)
>
>I argued that we should have eliminated the command STRSEU from our 
>machines for 2 to 3 months after paying an instructor to give a 2 day 
>class on CODE/400 a few years back.  After that time, if you truly felt 
>that there were times when STRSEU may have been more appropriate, then use 
>that.  But at least peek at the top of the training curve before you run 
>for the storm shelter.

I was in a position to do something similar back in the early AS/400 days. PDM 
had recently been released and I played with it for a while. It took a very 
short time to see the benefits. I announced that the STRPGMMNU command 
(everybody remember?) would be going away in a couple weeks and that PDM was 
the replacement, so everybody better get familiar fast.

I then followed through and "hid" STRPGMMNU. After the first actual day of PDM 
use, there was never a request to bring it back.

Tom Liotta

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