Re: SQL variables not created by precompiler

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/12/2009, at 7:19 AM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

> At this client, rather than Service Programs, they tend to use
> copy code, in a single member.  The member has the prototypes and the
> procedures separated by /IF DEFINED() compiler directives.  You set  
> the
> appropriate DEFINEs and /copy (sorry, /include) the source member  
> toward the
> top and the bottom of the source.

Yuck! You have my sympathy. Honestly, if they've gone to the bother of  
prototypes and procedures why not do things properly and build service  
programs from them? We've had ILE for more than a decade. How long  
will it take for these idiots to "get with the program"?--to coin an  
Americanism.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
   FlyByNight Software         OS/400, i5/OS Technical Specialists

   http://www.flybynight.com.au/
   Phone: +61 2 6657 8251   Mobile: +61 0411 091 400        /"\
   Fax:   +61 2 6657 8251                                   \ /
                                                             X
                 ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail  / \
--------------------------------------------------------------------