I didn't see what would be one of my favorite arguments. Shared code by
outside develops. There's tons of great code out there on the web (much
of it written by the talented contributors on this list). IBM's even
got some usable stuff. Using code modules from the web has drastically
reduced many of my project's completion times. I can't steal, er, use
ILE modules and service programs from outside if I don't use ILE. I
suppose the argument could be made to wrapper them in a program call,
but if someone can't see the silliness of doing that, they just don't
want to see it.
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:09 PM
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Subject: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?
Please help me come up with some good examples as to what makes ILE
better than "business as usual". Here's what I've used so far:
1. It's faster - Rebuttal: doesn't matter we have plenty of cpu and
our machine screams as it is.
2. Service program equals reusability - Rebuttal: we can just use a
separate program for reusable code.
3. Local variables - Rebuttal: if they are inside a separate program it
doesn't matter.
4. System maintenance - Rebuttal: instead of service programs or
subprocedures we have separate pgms so it's the same thing.
It's not that the boss wants to stop us from using ILE, she just wants
to know what makes it so much better than plain 'ol RPG IV that she
should invest the man hours it's going to take to bring our whole dept
up to speed on ILE. And I just am not coming up with anything that's
very convincing.
So please, if you have any good arguments, let me know.
Thanks,
Dennis
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