Sharing In V6
by Jon Paris

Some time ago I read Ted Holt's Guru tip Sharing Simplifies Source Code in which he showed an approach to building reports in a modular programming environment. At the time I can remember thinking that it would be interesting to see how V6 RPG's ability to pass files as parameters might offer an even simpler approach. READ MORE >

*NOMAX Does Not Mean Infinite Capacity
Hey, Ted:

The practice in our shop has been to set the initial size of physical files to what seems to be a reasonable value. In many cases, we leave the size at the default value of 10,000 records with three increments of 1,000 records each. Sometimes we change one or more of these values, usually the first one. Someone has suggested that we stop the guesswork and create all files with SIZE(*NOMAX). However, someone else is afraid that a program will go into a loop and fill up the disk space with output operations. Who's right? READ MORE >