Re: Auditor's questions Was: Active subsystems

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:11 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Interesting. So, do auditors not care if you modify anything written in
scripted languages? Only compiled languages? So if you store each step
for a CL program in a file, can you then modify that file to your hearts
content and not have to worry about documenting the changes to the
auditors? If so, does it matter if the 'steps' are stored in a data file
versus a source file? If not, then can you just have a CRTCLPGM to
'gather' the script for execution?

I found it amusing that you talk about scripted languages and then at
the very next breath bring up CL, which is compiled. Yes, CL tends to
be used "for scripting" but it definitely satisfies any definition for
"compiled" you care to come up with.

If you can dynamically compile CLPs, there's nothing to stop you from
doing the same for RPG programs as well. And indeed, that's a viable
technique for creating tools that can operate on arbitrary files of
unknown format, yet still have good performance. (There was a time,
years ago, when I tried to use the "natural" dynamic languages on our
smallish AS/400, SQL and Rexx. Both of them were abysmally slow. On
today's i, if you are reasonably skilled with SQL, it probably makes
more sense to just use SQL.)

John Y.