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If all the people that know the cycle continue using the cycle, then
you will soon get something like what was was included in a section of
the company's CIO Newsletter 2007 that went out to thousands of
employees
worldwide:
"The <project-name> project has been established in 2006 to developo a
successor for <package-name>. There are both business and technical8-track.
reasons to replace <package-name>. From a technical perspective, the
age of the application (some parts are 15 years old) and the
programming language (RPG) make maintenance and further development
more and more difficult/expensive. In addition to that, it is not
possible to run the application on other hardware than AS/400."
You guys can defend the cycle all you want, along with beta max and
The code that was included with this note is not structured and not
logical. It is crap IMHO (pardon the language).
Glenn Gundermann
ggundermann@xxxxxx
(647) 272-3295
Agreed. It is structured and logical (not always the same thing).
Terri even got it right that the data from the secondary file (02)
is not available for comparison until the 02 record is read.
Writing Level Control Breaks may, as someone said, be "trivial", but
matching records is far from a trivial exercise. It would take far
less time for a newbie to grasp the concept of matching records than
understandable.it would take to re-write it. And I doubt that such re-write would
be as understandable. I used to work in a mixed Cobol / RPG shop.
Any time matching record processing was needed, we always wrote
those in RPG because it was simple, short, sweet, and
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