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On 10/05/2010, at 5:48 PM, David FOXWELL wrote:
This is obvious. CVTRPGSRC, CRTPF, CRTRPGMOD, CRTCLMOD, etc., all
want us to use QXXXSRC. When I started out, my personal library
contained one source file called TOOLS in which I put everything.
But default command settings soon corrected me. In our company
NOBODY touches the default settings!
It's not necessary to change the default settings. It is only
necessary to use a proper change management (or source code control)
system. It will take care of specifying the actual file name. You only
have to create it (and in some cases ensure the source is added to the
proper file).
Why does IBM apparently WANT us to use these file names?
I'm not sure they care what source file you use. They set up some
defaults to make life a little easier when you first start using the
system, that's all.
I didn't quite get that. You don't separate the main source files by
language type, but you do separate shared source by language type?
I separate the includes by source type because they all have the same
name. I could tag the name with a type (as is necessary when using a
single source file) but includes seem better named according to what
they contain. Thus there is a FBNSTRING include in the H file for C,
in the RPGLEINC file for RPG IV, in the CBLLEINC file for COBOL. There
is a MATMATR in RPGLEINC for RPG IV, and one in CBLLEINC for COBOL. I
don't need an H include for this one because Rochester have provided a
serviceable one in QSYSINC.
Although they have also provided includes for APIs in QSYSINC they
haven't done the MI instructions for RPG or COBOL and the API ones
they do provide for RPG are simply horrible, Cryptic names and poor
structure definitions and non-existent prototypes--might as well be
using RPG III. Not surprising since I understand the COBOL and RPG
ones are generated from the C includes and the RPG IV ones are simply
converted from the RPG III ones. Bleuch!
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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