AW: Naming Conventions on Your Programs

Hi,

for Programs we use the following naming conventions:
XX1122Y33

XX - Application
11 - Specific Part of the application i.e. 01 - Management Master-Files,
02 - List programs / Statistics ...
22 - running No

1122 - for physical and logical files are character

Y - C = CL-Pgm, R = RPG-Pgm, M = Module
    W = Printer-Files, F = Display-Files
    P = physical File, L = logical File, J = Join logical file,
    V = View, I = SQL index, U = Unique Key logical file or SQL - Index

33 - running No.

For ILE - Programming, we group exported procedures depending on their
functionality into one or several modules.
For these modules we use more speaking names: i.e. CHKAAAA11 (Check
Procedures for field AAAA), UpdBBBBB11 (Update file XXBBBB) or DltXXXX11
(Delete from file XXXX)
These modules are gouped to service programs depending on the first 7
characters.

Mit freundlichen Gru?en / Best regards

Birgitta

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
(Les Brown)

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]Im Auftrag von Booth Martin
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 21:48
An: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Betreff: Re: Naming Conventions on Your Programs


I like the XXnnnnYY style, where XX is the application, nnnn is a
sequential numbering system, and YY is the object type (R= RPG, C = CL,
D= Display file, O=output(printer), P=physical file, Ln = Logical files.)

I like two other refinements.
1)In the nnnn sequencing we often assign a series of numbers to a
project.  (i.e. Use the 723n series for this project, or use 72nn for
that series.)
2) use the application XX for the source file, as in ARSRC, APSRC,
instead of QRPGLESRC, QCLSRC, etc.


Denis Robitaille wrote:
> We use the following convention:
>
> XXY9999Z
>
> XX= Application (GL=General ledger ...)
> Y= Type of program (U=update R=research ...) (If I could, I would let
> go of this part)
> 9999=sequential number
> Z= type of object (R=RPG D=Display file ...)
>
> We use the 50 caracters description to do what you want to do with the
> program name.
>
> In fact, I strongly suggest that you stay away from trying to give
> meaninfull name to your programs. The 10 caracters limit would force you
> to use strange acronyms that, if you have any volume of prpogram, will
> become rapidely incomprehensible.
>
> Denis Robitaille
> Directeur services technique TI
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>
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>>>> bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2006-02-22 14:33:14 >>>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I wanted to take a quick poll as to how you name your programs in your
> shop.  Currently, our parent company names the programs based on their
> operation.  All programs were formatted as such:
>
>
>
> SS + 3 digit number + Program Type (ie: R for RPG, D for DDS, etc.)
>
>
>
> So we had names such as SS112R, SS112D, etc.  We did originally have
> "SP" programs but post-conversion these programs became "SS" (not
> exactly sure why this is done - it has always been SOP in our
> programming departments).
>
>
>
> I'm trying to move away from this practice of using SSxxx because any
> new programmer coming into the company will not know what these
> programs
> do.  They will need to spend time reviewing the source code to
> understand what is happening.
>
>
>
> I'm of the mindset to name our programs with something more
> meaningful.
> For example, if we have a program that creates master packing lists, I
> would probably name it CRTMPLR and it's DDS/PRTR files CRTMPLD and
> CRTMPLP respectively.
>
>
>
> I do wish that the AS/400 would accept file names larger than it's
> current limitations.  It would be nice to be able to name a program
> "Create Master Packing List" instead of trying to do it shorthand.
>
>
>
> What is your shop's policy for naming files?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
>
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>
> Brian Piotrowski
>
> Specialist - I.T.
>
> Simcoe Parts Service, Inc.
>
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>
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>
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