Re: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

Michael,
Granted that you do not need the cycle anymore, but that is no reason to
discard it when it is the best fit for the job.
Use all of the tools in your tool box, do not discard one just because a
combination of others will also work.


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And that's the reason to *not* use the cycle. RPG isn't just a unit record
language anymore. The cycle is just a trick. You can do everything you want
in RPG without the cycle. And by not using the cycle, you open up the i to
any programmer - not just graybeards. I started writing in RPG over 30
years ago...I certainly used the cycle. I used to be expert in MR and
control break logic (IMNSHO). But I don't see the need to use it anymore -
not with NOMAIN and ILE and free format RPG. Should I know it? In my
position, most certainly. Do I need to have a new programmer that's writing
new code learn the cycle? Maybe not. But...we as a community don't embrace
change much, so there's that.


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Paul Therrien <ptherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Agreed.

Paul
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Subject: Re: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

The cycle can play nasty tricks, like when you forget to seton LR or have
the last return before the "on-error" of a monitor group.
You do not need to fully understand it, be you better know it is there!!

Paul Therrien wrote:

You do not need to understand matching records or the cycle to use

RPGLE.

For a new person coming to RPGLE the attitude of " you can't really call
yourself an RPG programmer" is not encouraging.

We need to encourage new people, not discourage them.


Paul

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anderson, Kurt
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Subject: RE: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

Jerry, your comment appears to come without any respect whatsoever.

Somehow you attribute a real RPG programmer as one who uses (or has

used)

old methodologies. I honestly don't judge if someone is going to use
matching records indicators. I know we have a couple programs that do,

and

we pretty much leave them alone. Do I claim to understand them? No.
Every time I work with them (that is, virtually never), I have to

research

what's going on. Anyway, I just had to respond. Being unable to call
yourself a RPG programmer based on a completely arbitrary method of

coding

is ridiculous.

-Kurt

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
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Subject: RE: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

Nancy, with all due respect, if you don't know "matching records," you

can't really call yourself an RPG programmer. I'm not sayinf you have to
have used them, but a real "Cycle" programmer knows matching records

(even

if they don't use them properly).

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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They claimed that you can only test an indicator, such as *IN01 or

*INLR,

in an IF statement. (*in01 IFNE or IFEQ or IFGT etc 01 or ON). Any
variable, including a counter or a field of a record, can be tested.

The System 36 and 38 is a little before my time. SO are matching

records.

Thank you,
Nancy
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