RE: RPG Cycle (was Multi-Occurring DS)

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The goal of moving away from RPGIII to ILERPG does not preclude using 
ALL the available techniques that it offers. An hour to learn/explain 
some of the older techniques might be well-spent, especially with 
appropriate comments with a reference to the manuals for future 
developers. That will usually take far less time than figuring out 
how to write a matching records routing or even level routines - an 
easier task in my opinion and necessary in other languages.

So I simply encourage learning the use of tools that make one's life 
easier - faster development, leaner code, all that. If MR is not 
one's choice, that's fine. But it's not fine, IMO, to say one should 
never use it.

Now when you start using SQL a lot, you might just HAVE to write your 
own MR routines!!

Regards
Vern

At 08:58 AM 12/19/2007, you wrote:

> That is what I meant by depending on your IT goal and vision.  It is
> obviously wrong to say that nobody in my IT shop should use anything new
> because Joe over here might not understand it.  We are IT, it is our job
> to keep ourselves updated.  However, if your IT has already set a goal
> to move away from RPGIII, for example, and is encouraging every
> programmer to start using ILERPG, it would be counter productive for a
> programmer keep insist that his brand new RPGIII application work just
> fine, too bad if you don't understand it or not like it.

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