×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
Mihael, Mihael
You continue to misrepresent or misunderstand things regarding OA - this
one statement must be challenged -
"that would have missed their point/goal in providing something
that RPG III developers can use without learning something new"
That is your severely biased interpretation of the original requirement.
And to be very specific, OA is NOT usable at all in RPG III
As to abuse of the CHAIN opcode - let me see - once upon a time there
was a READ opcode - hmmm - but if you called the file a SPECIAL type,
instead of a DISK type, hey you could READ IFS files. Oh really? Did IBM
abuse the READ opcode in that scenario? I don't think so. You might
think so. But truth is, it has been a part of the language for decades.
Oh, let me see again - is there anything else in the system where you
redirect what is being processed? Hmm, overrides - hey, I can override a
PF with a printer file and get a simple report quite easily. Oh, but I
would be doing something a PF is not designed for. Ah, but that is the
whole point.
I ask you to do the work you do - it is good work. Stop implicitly
insulting developers who may not have your knowledge. Promote what you
do without tearing down alternatives - if your product is good, it will
be enough to say what it does, not what others do NOT do!
At any rate, I expect that if I've said anything with validity here, it
is for others in this list to consider.
Vern
On 3/21/2011 2:00 AM, Schmidt, Mihael wrote:
But then again that would have missed their point/goal in providing something that RPG III developers can use without learning something new.
midrange.com
