RE: benefit of using ifs to store RPG source -- RPG400-L

Subject: RE: benefit of using ifs to store RPG source
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:12:43 -0400
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I wonder what the reasoning behind allowing RPG IFS source files was ...


It was a recognition that increasingly applications that used RPG were often
a combination of VB, HTML, Java, JavaScript, etc. etc.  Of those only one
(RPG) made any sense in a source physical.  To simplify change management it
made sense to have all sources in a common repository.  Since VB would never
be available in source physicals it made more sense to allow RPG code to
reside in the IFS. 

Jon Paris
Partner400

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