Re: Compiler directive

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

How many third party vendors have produced anything like a QSYSINC library,
much less service programs containing cool procedures that we could use?

On 8/9/06, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > You say that include files are 1980's technology.  My response to that
> is
> > that the include files we have in QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC today are 1980's
> > technology.  All I want is updated versions.  It may not be a
> > revolutionary change, but even THAT is too much for IBM.
>
> my rule, FWIW, is that if 3rd parties can create the software product
> just as well as IBM, then IBM should not be called on to provide that
> product.  That would take IBM out of the PDM, SEU and WDSc editor
> business, so I guess that might not be practical.  But if there is a
> need in the marketplace for a spiffy QSYSINC library, 3rd party
> vendors would produce them.
>
> I actually think IBM has done a good job with ILE providing the
> building blocks for something like the .NET framework. What is missing
> is the ability to put meta data in the associated space of a service
> program. For some reason the ILE designers crippled the associated
> space of a program feature that OPM programs had.
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/apis/qclspgas.htm
>
> -Steve
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