RE: Externalizing I/O was RPG read loops

Joe,

JDE's database naming isn't *that* hideous but it's pretty bad for print and 
display files since their standard is to have these meaningless field names 
that all of the static text gets loaded into at run time. They do it to enable 
multi-language support but I think they should have come up with a better 
naming standard. Of course, when you only had six characters for a field name, 
it's hard to be meaningful.

Anyway, I was exposed to an evil naming convention when I was in school. The 
RPG teacher worked for a company that had a naming convention for all DDS of a 
single letter to indicate the system (AR, AP, etc...) followed by a five digit 
sequential number. After he showed us a few examples of the code, we were told 
that we'd fail if we ever turned in something like that.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:53 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Externalizing I/O was RPG read loops


> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Somewhere out there I bet there's a canned package that does this.
> Strictly as a security by obscurity measure.  I have used canned
packages
> in which the file descriptions were all the same.  "Copyright 19xx by
xyz
> corp".
> I can just imagine them using fld001, fld002, fld003 in each file.
Just
> one step above internally defined.

Oh ugh, Rob.  Then again, isn't the JDE database sort of "soft coded"
where everything is just a field?  I seem to recall something like that
in one of the major ERP packages.

Joe

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