Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:30:07 -0600
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On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the case of my organisation, .NET running on Microsoft Windows. The
web team get the data via stored procs (mostly) and it took time
convincing management that the web people didn't need ODBC direct to DB2
tables.

Buck, would you be willing to share what convinced your management to call
stored procedures from MS .Net apps? What do your stored procedures do? As
you intimated, MS .Net developers have other options for retrieving and
updating IBM i data. Do your web developers view you and your stored
procedures as a valued resource? As a gate-keeper? As a bottleneck?

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