RE: Compiler directive

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

The flaw in your thinking is that the phrase "if there is a need in the
marketplace". Because there is a need, just that only 3 customers, world-wide
that would actually want to pay for improved QSYSINC. That is why IBM has to do
it and roll the costs into the OS/400 fee structure. 

-Bob Cozzi
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:47 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Compiler directive

On 8/9/06, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You say that include files are 1980's technology.  My response to that is
> that the include files we have in QSYSINC/QRPGLESRC today are 1980's
> technology.  All I want is updated versions.  It may not be a
> revolutionary change, but even THAT is too much for IBM.

my rule, FWIW, is that if 3rd parties can create the software product
just as well as IBM, then IBM should not be called on to provide that
product.  That would take IBM out of the PDM, SEU and WDSc editor
business, so I guess that might not be practical.  But if there is a
need in the marketplace for a spiffy QSYSINC library, 3rd party
vendors would produce them.

I actually think IBM has done a good job with ILE providing the
building blocks for something like the .NET framework. What is missing
is the ability to put meta data in the associated space of a service
program. For some reason the ILE designers crippled the associated
space of a program feature that OPM programs had.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/apis/qclspgas.htm

-Steve