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Henryk

Thou dost protest too much! As Jon said, you are not the target, the audience for Open Access - you would develop a handler - not really the same kind of handler that you described as having already been written and so easy to do.

One point of all this is to let regular RPG programmers have access to non-traditional IO targets - not a DISK or DISPLAY or PRINTER. And let them use nothing that they don't already know. This lets them do their work as they already have - yes, maybe they should learn new things. Or maybe it's not really necessary in their shop.

We write software to sell - we use APIs all the time - this is a thin layer over some APIs, and we already do HTTP stuff using the CGI APIs. A question asked here is, why is this needed? Will it get a lot of interest? Again, we are not the target, we could be a handler developer.

IBM are betting that there will be a sizable group of developers that need to get their work done quickly and efficiently. If a tool could be provided that doesn't require learning a whole set of API function calls or procedure calls (such as one of our products provide), they will be up and running almost instantly. That's a good thing, methinks.

I can only assume you have not read the OA handler documentation, else you probably would not have put up the example you did of a handler - there is a slight functional similarity, but in implementation, not anything close. And we are not talking only about generic file handlers here.

Regards
Vern

On 7/22/2010 4:42 PM, hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Jon,

yes, if the programmers comfort zone i QRPGSRC, member type RPG and RPT
my code is simpler and easier to understand ... and there are many out
there that will never learn OO javasript or what %paddr is about or
eben a DS QUALIFIED is about.

In my project I'm trying to move them bit by bit - you are trying to
send them out in a bungy jump.

And hold the horses - I have taken a 60 year+ RPG programmer (NOT a RPGLE
programmer) and made him make 380 online ExtJS programs/functions in less
than
6 month with only approx. 20 hours of instruction. The project is now on
approx 270.000 lines of RPGLE/FREE code and approx. 50.000 lines of XML
code.

The truth is that the major part of iSeries programmers dosn't fit in to
iNetwork, Midrange.com or whatever - they are highly skilled in their
applications and may be resonable good programmers, but is either not
aware, has no experience or has fear to join a forum amoung so called
experts that in best case gives them three lines of code (with a lot
is expected to be understod) where the actually wanted an example.

In other words, they are "holistic", programming is only a matter of
reaching the overall goal - to do their job or achive their goals.

If you look back in the EASY400GROUP, Jon, you will find that many of
my examples is based on "working examples" or actual solutions, I never
answer people with one statement of code where they have to figure the
rest out for themselves.

I believe you are on the wrong road ;-)

Regards
Henrik¨





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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 ....

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