Not to take away all the long hours of enjoyment of constantly updating a
moving target <wink>, but have you and IBM ever considered a larger
community effort?
One place where I have found great benefit to a formal manual supplemented
by community comments is the PHP language site. They have the formal
declaration for a particular function and then user comments describing best
practices, things to watch out for, alternatives, etc.
Take a look at the "round()" function here:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.round.php
Let's open the doors on RPG documentation and see where we can take the next
generation of it! Maybe we could do a trial run with
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/RPG to see how well it works in that
technology.
Would IBM allow the reference manual to be duplicated on midrange.com in
wiki form? Here is what I found for a copyright:
<snip>
C Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1994, 2004. All
rights reserved. US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or
disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
</snip>
I think a lot of good things could come out of it for IBM too, like having a
solid place to go for reviewing how customers are using the different API's
and how the compiler team could make them better. Granted this list works
good for that too, but the posts aren't monitored, modified and "honed" like
a wiki environment is.
Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:44 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dynamic 'callp'
"Speaking of "the redbook", what ever happened to the sequel.... uh...
refresh of that title?"
It is a very long story involving IBM legal - myself and Susan being over
committed - editors not being available once some of the text was ...
Net is that there are a few chapters in progress - have one with me on this
trip for final edit but haven't cracked it open yet. They will likely
appear as RedPieces at some point but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for
an update of the book per se.
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
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