Re: Open Access for RPG

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry Henrik - but this is just plain silly.

In what _possible_ universe is your 8+ lines of code below simpler than:

CHAIN ( key1 : ... : keyN ) DMREG;

Of course you can write your own handlers and I know you've done it.  
But you are completely missing the point. YOU ARE NOT THE TARGET  
AUDIENCE. Sorry to shout but I want to be clear. You are a very  
sophisticated programmer - you are a handler _writer_ - and I'd love  
to see you adapt some of your UI and XML code as handlers so that  
others could do as easily the things that you (but not them) already  
find easy.

If you can't understand that difference then there is no point in  
discussing this further.

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com


On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:32 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> excuse my, but the interface to a file handler is easy ...
>
>              eval     DMDMNO = 123456
>              eval     FILE = 'DMREG'
>              eval     OPCD = '*CHAIN'
>              call     'MYHANDLER'
>              parm     FILE    // file
>              parm     OPCD    // operationcode
>              parm     RTCD    // returncode
>              parm     DMREC   // datainterface
>              if       RTCD = '*OK'
>                ***   do something
>              else
>                ***   do something else
>              endif
>
> and the underlying handler is also simple ....