RE: Based-on member control list error

["Willie J. Moore" <WJMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,
Sorry I did not get back to you yesterday.  I was at my daughters house to see 
our new granddaughter.  The reason we want to have external defined files is 
because we want to use the MAPICS intergrater.  We have our own order entry 
progarms and want to use some of the data.  To do this we need them to be 
extrnally defined.
Thank you for the examples.  I will be looking them over as soon as I take care 
of the little fires from yesterday. 
Willie...

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Subject: Re: Based-on member control list error


Buck,

If he did convert from one physical, to two physicals to externalize it 
and support multiple record formats, and then linked them back together 
with a logical file of some sort; I can't see how the original programs 
would work.

Rob Berendt
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Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Willie said:

> I was hoping I would not have to modify over 100
> programs for this project.

You don't!  You can certainly continue to use the program described files
as-is if you want, along with a few program which use externally described
files.  You don't need to be all external if you don't want to.  Way back
when, I maintained just such a mixture.  There were many batch programs
which did simple chores and had not been maintained for a decade or more.
We just let them run 'as-is'.  For newer programs, we went with external
descriptions.  If you go that route, be extremely careful not to do 
anything
that disrupts the record layout.  That is, don't change the DDS for 
existing
fields, and don't change the program described specs for existing fields.
Add new fields onto the end of the record.

May I ask why you decided to go external with the existing application? In
many cases, an application of that age/design has reached the end of its
lifetime, whether through business changes, legal changes or capacity
issues.  Is a re-design in the near future?
  --buck



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