Re: front end RPG MI program

Rich,

I'm certainly not disagreeing with your statement regarding "several very 
awkward CL programs", but the Information Center does have the qualifying:

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Note: All non-MI source examples are provided in CL, because CL is the one 
language (other than REXX) that is standard on all systems. Other 
high-level languages (HLLs) could be used in place of the CL programs (and 
in many cases would have been easier).
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Back in V1/V2 days when (some) users were clamoring for introductory 
material on using MI it was deemed inappropriate to say you had to buy a 
compiler such as RPG, COBOL, PL/I, C, etc in order to use the inherent 
OS/400 capability to create MI programs.  This would still be true today, 
but was especially true then as each language compiler was separately 
priced and ordered back in V1/V2.  To tell a COBOL user they had to buy 
the RPG compiler to get started (assuming RPG was used rather than CL), or 
the RPG user that they needed PL/I just didn't seem to be the best 
solution.  So CL was used as it represented the one language most users 
would be familiar with.

Today, with direct CL support for pointers, larger *Char variables, IFS 
*STMFs, etc the examples could certainly be streamlined and made less 
"awkward".  But then today you can also directly imbed ILE MI into any of 
the ILE languages so the need for updating/enhancing the OPM MI examples 
isn't real high (or, as you say, strategic).

Bruce Vining (speaking only for himself and with a bit of a historical 
view on this)




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Mark,

Are those examples on the Web site better than the ones that used to use 
several very awkward CL programs to put together the front end?  Because a 

blind man could do better in the dark than those examples!  Perhaps IBM 
has 
updated the examples though.  But probaby not.  They don't see OPM MI as a 

strategic product.

Chuckle.

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From: "Mark S. Waterbury" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MI400] front end RPG MI program


> Hello, Emilnico:
>
> Problems were very likely introduced when using "copy and paste" ...
>
> Try using FTP to upload the source member directly from your PC to the
> source file, and then try recompiling it and running it again.
>
> Or, see the V5R3 InfoCenter, under "Programming", "APIs", "MI
> Programming" and there you will find that IBM now provides several
> examples of how to create a front-end for the QPRCRTPG API.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Mark S. Waterbury
>
> > emilnico wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I copy and past the RPG front-end MI compiler of Leif Svalgaard.
>> When I run it on an V5R3 Os I have 5 errors without logs.
>> Have u an idea ?
>> Thanks.
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