RE: RPG IV not up to the task of reading and writing to DB files....

Charles,

I too had pointer phobia at first.  I first started using them with the 
list api's.  There is an api to retrieve data from a user space (QUSRTVUS) 
that I used to use.  But since I've seen the logic used when using 
QUSPTRUS I'd never go back to QUSRTVUS.  Well, I suppose if you could 
convince a majority of programmers that it would be a good thing if IBM 
dropped the + sign as an operator and also dropped the ADD op code and 
replaced it with an api in which you passed 4 parameters:  (factor1, 
factor2, result, error data structure); then maybe I'd relook at QUSRTVUS. 
 I think this logic has even convinced some of the programmers here that 
are a little long in the tooth to switch over to QUSPTRUS.

Rob Berendt