Re: Secure coding practices

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice article Barbara, thank you!  I'll be sharing this with co-coworkers.

I've recently re-boarded the "RPG exception bus" and introduced the
throw()/catch() in some of my new code at my current place of employment.

The only problem I've hit, when adding such procedures to existing is the
need to rethrow() to cross a *PGM boundary.

Charles


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 11:12 AM Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2021-03-04 7:34 a.m., Buck Calabro wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 17:11, Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > ... In my opinion, when people in your group have a calm discussion
> > about the relative merits of C/SQL-style return codes vs Java/IBM
> > i-style exceptions, you're moving in the right direction for creating
> > a system that is robust. No, it's really not possible to 'handle'
> > every single error that can occur, but when I *think* about doing that
> > as a standard way of building an application, the results turn out
> > better for me. ...
>
> I wrote a blog post in the RPG Cafe about the issue of return code vs
> exceptions for a procedure, and how to write a procedure that allows the
> caller to choose: https://ibm.biz/rpgcafe_return_code_vs_exception
>
> (Actual URL is https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1119309)
>
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> Barbara
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