Re: Advanced 36 & POP

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> How do I:
>  
>  1. Edit RPG source?
>  2. Compile RPG source?

While OS/400 libraries have data files & source files
S/36 libaries have source period ... data files are stored OUTSIDE of all 
libraries
Pop Menu/1 tells you what libraries on your S/36
Pop Menu/3 select a library
it gives you directory of software in there
F5 & you get options to focus selection on your interests such as
S = RPG source
P = OCL source
when you see program you interested in editing, put E in front of it & press 
enter
Remember that OCL is INTERPRETIVE - you do not compile it like you compile CL 
& if you have a GOTO, it processes all the lines in between until it gets to 
the TAG target of the GOTO so from a productivity perspective you really do 
need to use nesting, where OCL calls another OCL program based on conditions, 
which is how I used to get around the GOTO lag

Even without POP, you can also edit RPG/36 or other software for that matter 
via SEU ... on S/36 command line key SEU then press HELP key

If you are altering screen programs & menus, the fore-runner to DDS which 
also is going to be quite alien for an OS/400 person, there should be SDA on 
your AS/36 but I do not reccommend trying to mess with that without first 
getting an SDA manual, and I have one about to be thrown out for the S/36 
since I have the one for OS/400

COMPILE

There was a command to do this, spelled something like COMPILE or perhaps RPG 
- I do not remember because I never used it.  I had my own variants setup 
with the parameters filled in for various scenarios ... easy to do when you 
know OCL

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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