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Re: Do we need to do Garbage collection when using the POI

On 11/18/2015 1:52 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The more or less classic answer is Yet Another Work File which then gets
passed on to Java or Python and have /that/ converted to a spreadsheet.

I agree, that's the classic answer. And for now, you probably can't do
a whole lot better than that with the dynamic languages (Python, Ruby,
PHP, etc.) if you're committed to keeping the existing "business
logic" in already-written RPG.

For me, at least, there's another element that's pretty compelling: my
cross reference tool doesn't know about the IFS, Python, Java, PHP or my
sed and grep scripts. When I need to make a change to a table, I very
often need to visit the existing programs. Every RPG program that uses
a given file gets on the list of items to look at. Unfortunately, if I
move the I/O outside of RPG, I can't easily find it.

I may have to file this one in the 'I only have a hammer' file. :-/


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