RE: Creating a flat file

Just my .02,

But I'd really like to see a separate SQL list so we could get the SQL 
questions out of MIDRANGE-L.

I subscribed to MIDRANGE-L at my last job where I did development and admin.

But at my new job, I just do development, so I didn't subscribe to MIDRANGE-L.

The SQL topics are the only ones I miss.

Perhaps some of the CL topics, but CL is not nearly as important to me as RPG 
IV and SQL.



Charles
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces+wiltc=cintas.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+wiltc=cintas.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:04 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Creating a flat file

I agree and understand David's structure and I think he's done a great job.
That's why about 2 years ago I folded my own list on eGroups.com (now Yahoo
groups) and asked people to move over to one of David's lists.

The problem is one of perception by the community. 
There is only Midrange-L and RPG400-L in most subscriber's minds; those are the 
two primary lists. In
practice, one is for general banter, while the other is for programming. And 
yet, by design, one is
for general iSeries programming and the other for RPG-specific topics.
Is this a good design considering that 98% of the market only uses RPG IV for 
development? So what do
you post in Midrange-L? CL questions? I'm not sure, so Midrange-L ends up with 
banter and some CL
questions while RPG400-L ends up with RPG and non-RPG programming questions.

Sure we need separate C, CL, COBOL lists. But since 'everybody' uses RPG on 
iSeries, I think we need
to have a programming list that includes general iSeries programming questions 
(RPG IV, RPGII, CL,
DDS) and other lists for those other languages, and then we need a real banter 
list that we can
unsubscribe from.
That is, Midrange-L should not be a banter list or if it is, fine, but create 
an application developer
list for programming questions that includes CL, DDS and RPG. And tolerate 
CGI/Web questions that
relate to general programming on iSeries.

Hey, this ain't life threatening so if it stays as is, life will go on.

-BOB


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