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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:34 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there an advantage to using these APIs vs the other IFS APIs that are
well documented?
I don't know which APIs you mean, but only because I never use RPG to
access stream files.
Bob Cozzi wrote an article in 2002 which mentions the _C_API_* functions:
https://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/reading-ifs-files-in-rpg
And there's Simon's article, already linked to by the OP, but I'll
repeat here for convenience:
https://www.rpgpgm.com/2016/03/a-better-way-to-read-file-in-ifs-with.html
From what I can gather, these might be easier to use or simpler than
other APIs. Simon clearly thinks they are better than the ones he
explained in a previous article.
Again, I don't use RPG to work with stream files, so I don't have any
opinion on the relative merits of the various APIs available through
RPG. I do have the very strong opinion that using a PASE language for
stream file processing is much easier than anything available for RPG
(including embedded SQL).
John Y.
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