RE: "extract" command enhancement(subfiles and BIFs)

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

>Maybe I'm weird (okay, we're back to that again) but 
>subfiles don't take me long to write.   Even the people 
>that I train who have no prior exposure to the AS/400 
>seem to be able to pick up subfiles and write them 
>in less than the 2 days that someone else mentioned 
>on the list.  And we don't use templates (tho 
>programmers are welcome to make their own 
>templates, if they wish)

I find subfiles easy enough, but there's little question that trainees have
problems with the various combinations of PUTOVR, SLFCLR, SLFDSP, SLFDSPCTL,
SLFERRMSG and so on.  The big problem (it seems to me) is that the trainees
copy code fragments (especially DDS fragments) without understanding the
relationships between all the keywords.  When something goes wrong, they
can't readily debug, and have to resort to trial and error.

Buck Calabro
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