Re: New to RPG

Here is a link that will give you what you want to know in excruciating detail. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzasd/rpgcycle.htm You can think of it as a precursor to frameworks. When using the cycle, Calc specs in different parts of the program (levels) are executed automatically at different times. There is header time, calculation time, total time, and maybe some that I don't remember. It is all controlled by indicators (booleans ish).

Mark Murphy
Atlas Data Systems
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-----Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/27/2017 03:42PM
Subject: Re: New to RPG


As another young developer just getting into iSeries, I promise to only
write new software with the modern techniques. And I should probably get
RDi. I am still curious about the old fixed-form style, mainly because the
syntax looks very exotic to me. Can someone explain the concept of the
"cycle" that was mentioned about?

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:38 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SCREW UP A LOT OF RECORDS VERY FAST, WITH NO WAY TO HALT THE CARNAGE AT
ONE DAMAGED RECORD.

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