RE: Blast from the past

Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:52:52 -0500
Subject: Re: Blast from the past
From: michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

That's right Jerry!

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Jerry Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steely Dan, FM, right?

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael
Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 11:50 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Blast from the past

No static at all...

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Monnier, Gary <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Sounds like static HTML to me. :)



-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 9:45 AM
To: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Blast from the past



I just suffered a brain warp. I browsed a production source member
for a program that is called by the program I am currently working on.
All files program-described, including the workstn file. COMP op
codes. Left side indicators.



The maintenance log implies that it was originally written on a S/36.

What's funny/sad is that, for some reason, when they migrated to the
AS/400, they "enhanced" the program by creating an *ENTRY PLIST for
all of the LDA values that were previously passed into the program via

the
LDA.

The calling CL passed the LDA values into variables that were then
used as parameters to call this program.



To be fair, this 200-line program (including I/O specs) has been
modified
5 times since its creation in 1986, the last of which was in 2001.



I'm not sure why I was compelled to share this here. Empathy? Sympathy?

Laughs?



- Dan

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