WDSc Vs SEU

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message: 3

date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:21:00 -0700

from: DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx

subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] qrpgsrc vs qrpglesrc

This is one of my pet peeves. Why do we continue to have to use

multiple

source files names?

I use a single source file QSRCF defined at 132 for all source but

continue to battle with other programmers because they have to have

QRPGSRC, QRPGLESRC, QCLSRC, QCLLESRC, QDDSSRC, QSQLSRC, etc, etc, ad

nauseam. The old familiar refrain "That's the way we always did it.".

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Using WDSC mitigates this to some degree but why have all these names?

All your source types are together in one file and can be seen

together.

Use a single source file and eliminate the problem.

Honestly, I could care less if we have one source file or 20, I was more


concerned with problems arising from the implementation. I doubt that
the

length of each source file was taken into consideration when the idea of


combining our source files was implemented.....



IMHO it is easier to split source types up between RPG,RPGLE,CL, and DDS
(we don't have too many CMD). I convert any RPG I have to work on to
RPGLE and usually go into FREE as well and use the same name as the
original and leave the original source in QRPGSRC for a while and then
archive it. It isn't a case of "That's the way we always did it", but
it just is easier and keeps our auditors happy.



I tried the other way and it actually got a tad overwhelming, but then I
am old too.



Bill