On 6 Jan 2008 10:57:47 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
I would like to jump in here and offer some assistance (of
a
different kind).
<snip very thorough and informative post on how to find
and access the information and/or control blocks needed>
I will do a lot of what you suggest, but I always
perform one previous step: I check the CBT tape so as not
to reinvent the wheel.
Even if I find a close match, I will still do a
thorough bench-check of the code to make sure I understand
it, and that I agree it'll work correctly. But that
generally takes a lot less time than coding from scratch,
*and* it exposes me to useful coding techniques I might
never have come up with on my own. (Plus, sometimes other
people will update it for a new release before I have to.)
And if I can't use much of the code, I can still look
at how the author found information. It's often easier to
verify a control block chain leading to the desired
information, than it is to discover the chain from scratch.
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