Re: Quick survey - how well structured are your RPG apps?

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of our code is S/36, which is a horrible mess, spagetti code,
in a zillion libraries.  The new stuff I am writing in RPG IV.
Very little is ILE.  I will answer the questions for the new code I
am writing.

boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> 1) On a scale of 1 to 5, how well structured are your RPG apps?
>    (where 1 is perfect user-interface/business logic separation;
>    3 is "half my programs/modules are pure business logic with
>    no display files"; and 5 is "they're a mess!")

3.  Some are called from a CL that pass parameters to the RPG
program.  Some have the display file coded in them and run the
logic right after the user selection.  Some are called from other
RPG programs (very few).

I would be using ILE quite a bit more if it was easier to link in
modules.  Once I start using ILE more in RPG I am sure it would
be second nature.  But, as it is, if I were to write an RPG program
and module from scratch, it would currently take me an hour or
so to figure out the correct way to call and link them.

> 2) Do you expect that someday you may have to put a web-based
>    user-interface on one or more of these applications?

Not our current applications, no.  Future applications, maybe.  It would
be yes, but we recently (Jan 15th) merged with another company.  They
may or may not use the AS/400 for web serving, although they do use
AS/400s.


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