On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:24:24 -0500, McKown, John
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm going to re-engineer our ACS routines. They are a mess. But I'm curious
about the "best" way. I've narrowed it down to two techniques. 

<Snip>

"Best" can be very subjective so I won't comment on that aspect. 

For simplification, just as I would do with REXX,  I would also include 
"SELECT WHEN" in your list of constructs to use. 

>I really want it to be simple and easy to understand and maintain.
>

SELECT WHEN can definitely help to do that compared to a bunch of 
IF/THEN/ELSE statements. 

Mark
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