RE: Externalizing I/O was RPG read loops

True, but we're a long way from developing anything but 5250 applications
right now.  Moving toward central access programs is a small step toward
non-5250 applications.  The lessons we have learned, and will learn, while
doing this, will help us in the future.

If nothing else, we learn something about service programs and procedures,
which were completely foreign concepts a year or so ago. 

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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I think, even if you were going to go the external i/o route, assuming that
your i/o 
routines are only called by a 5250 program would be a tad shortsighted.
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