Re: more bad RPG code question

I share the views of many others here..hard coding is Bad Practice..

What if there is nobody available to change the program..or the software is moved to a box without a compiler..or the programmer leaves..

It should be solved by coding a table with a maintenance program and put on a menu - it's not a programmers job to administer something like this.

At least code the table and use UPDDTA on a menu...it would be half a dozen lines of code or less and a menu change..plus of course the CHAIN in the RPG program in question.

On 07/04/2016 14:53, Steve Richter wrote:

how is coding a list of user names in a source member different than coding
a list of users in a database table?

Using the database table approach increases the complexity of the system.
You have to document the table. And have a table maint program. And put it
on a menu somewhere.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Wouldn't it be better to great at least a table with users that can have
access that you could CHAIN to? Hardcoding is rarely a good idea.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Hoteltravelfundotcom <
hoteltravelfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is this acceptable ?
CurrentUser ifeq 'SIMONG'
CurrentUser oreq 'ALEYB'
WRITE CTLRB
END

They want to limit who can update rebates.

The other way would be to make a file with such permissions.

But they said to just hard code it. is this syntax ok? We only want to
allow 2 people to update the rebates table.
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