Re: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Steve,

You wrote:
>One of the consultants where I was working had created programs in his own
>library and moved the objects to the production library without copying the
>source to the production source file.  Then somebody deleted his library,
>containing the source code.  We had them decompile a couple of printer
>files, display files, and RPG programs.  I emailed to them a save file
>containg the objects, they decompiled them and sent back the source.

This is exactly why all IT shops should use a change management system.  No
production objects should be compiled from source in a development library --
especially not a development library outside the CMS control.  Even one-man 
shops
should use a CMS.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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