Re: Using the RPG Cycle

On 28 April 2017 at 17:41, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And since the CRTRPTPGM command's "full name" (for lack of a more
official term) is "Create Auto Report RPG Program", I think folks can
be forgiven for having the impression that this is somehow part of
RPG, or at least related to RPG in some way.

I am not fully understanding what I am reading, but I'm getting the
distinct impression that "Auto Report" is a tool for generating RPG
programs (but not newer than RPG/400) without writing all the RPG
source yourself.

I used to think of Auto Report as a preprocessor.

Basically, you'd put Auto Report specs in your RPG source, and the
'preprocessor' would convert that to 'real' RPG source. This was
somewhat useful in System/3 days, when virtually all of our output was
in the form of paper reports. *AUTO used to do the equivalent of
SQL's GROUP BY ... WITH ROLLUP. It'd generate all the accumulators
and print them, too.

/COPY is all that is left of Auto Report in ILE RPG.
--buck