RE: What are the benefits of ILE?

[SCarter@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I guess my question sparked more debate than I really intended....

What I was looking for is when do you decide something is right for a
subprocedure or is it just
so menial that it is silly to do this.

My main focus is that the higher ups are talking about doing a rewrite of
our system.....
Most of the code is old (many of the dates in seu are 87 88), no use of
copy books, no vendor
software (all in house).

example 1:

Payroll system we have a program that creates a list for payroll personnel
of who is going to be paid, how much and so on.
The actual program uses the axact same code to actually write checks but in
a different source... Obviously the problem
here is that when some thing changes we have to change 2 seperate source
file and recompile blah,blah,blah.
This seem perfect for using subprocedures/service programs in a rewrite..

example 2:
we want to standardize interfaces across the system.  is it worth it to
create service programs to handle the screen interface
or is this just an extra level of complexity that would get in the way?

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