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Really? There are two states to test, user exists, and user doesn't exist. Adding data to that file will not change the application processes in an untested way. Do you have to put every order you create through change management? Doesn't your data contain flags that control the processing flow? When you change a flag does that data have to go through change management? No because the processes were designed and tested to handle that. Hard coding user profiles in programs is bad because you have to change and rebuild those programs every time someone is hired or leaves the company.
Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
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-----Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/07/2016 12:08PM
Subject: Re: more bad RPG code question
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Where I come from, it takes two months to update a program in production.
just to argue this point, are you changing the behavior of the program by
changing values in a control file? If so, shouldn't that change be
controlled by change management? And since a control file is not a part of
change management software it is better to change the behavior of the
program by changing the source code ( list of users that can run an option
) and promoting that change. That way the change can be rolled back.
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