Re: RPGLE I/O opcodes with commit/rollback

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't forget to put the COMMIT keyword on your F-spec!  I've only 
noticed mention of the opcodes for commit/rollback, not sure if someone 
mentioned the F-spec keyword?

Anyway, John, if you started RPG in 1992, then these have probably been 
there the entire time you've coded RPG.  (I don't remember exactly when 
they were added, but I know they were there in RPG III, so it's been 
there since at least the early 90's)

In my experience, it used to be extremely rare that commitment control 
was used at all in IBM i shops. (Not just with native I/O but with SQL 
as well.)  Usage has increased in recent years, but it's still not very 
common, which is a shame.

It's strange to me that you knew about it in SQL, but not in native I/O. 
My experience has been that any shop using commitment control uses it in 
both places.


On 11/18/2015 2:21 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. wrote:
> Wow, I have been doing RPG since 1992 and have been an RPG consultant since
> 1999 so lots of different companies / coding styles in the past 20+ years
> and have never seen those two opcodes.  I guess I owe someone an apology and
> lunch for losing the bet.
>
> Just out of curiosity, was the use of this very rare or have I just not
> stumbled into the right companies that use it.