Organising modules, programs and service programs

Hi,

 

I work on an application that has a history of more than 15 years.
Originally this application was written in RPG400 and somewhat 5-6 years
ago, the whole bunch was converted to RPG IV using the CVTRPGSRC.  Since
then most of the programs are being created with the CRTBNDRPG command.

 

Since a few months I've did some trials to create modules and bind them
together in real ILE-programs.  With, all together, reasonable success.

 

Now I want to go a step further on the ILE-way and want to start
externalizing file I/O's.  However, I'm having some difficulties in
setting up a workable organization for this.  

I was thinking of creating two modules for each file in the database :
the first one would contain procedures to update, add or delete records
in the file, the second would contain procedures to get information from
the specified file (input only).  Finally, I thought of binding these
two modules in a service program.  So, I would have one service program
for all I/O's per file.

 

Is this a workable method ? Does anyone has any suggestions, or can you
point me to some literature and/or examples of how to handle this ?

 

Another question to this is : do I need to have a different name for
each procedure.  For example : I have customer-file and a supplier-file.
If I want to read a record, does the name of the two procedures to read
a record have to be different (e.g. ReadCust and ReadSup) ? Or is there
a way to name it both for example Readrecord ?

 

Any suggestions will be welcome, as well as tips for further reading.

 

 

 

Johan Vangilbergen

 

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