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[Michael Lee]

I personally have taught the Powerhouse Advanced courses and everyone who has ever
taken it felt the better for it afterwards. As well one first things I taught on
the course, and I believe this to be standard, is never change the default
procedures unless necessary. As we all know this is often times necessary, but not
as much as people think. I would hope if your colleagues were generating and saving
the default procedures that they didn't do this in real programs. If they did the
problem is not the Powerhouse Advanced course.

Some people, unlike me for instance, are very good at learning stuff from the
manuals. Most people, however, get a lot more out of a course, especially if the
instructor is any good (not all are). Of course I'm assuming that I was one of the
good ones... ;-)


Michael lee
MCL Systems Inc.


Chris Sharman wrote:

> >Customising the generated default procedures (e.g. path, find, entry, update)
> >is NOT unsupported. After all, this is why Cognos provides the "ADVANCED"
> >courses.
>
> No, I know. I didn't make myself clear.
> What I think is unsupported is relying on several access statements, the first
> one without a request, to generate redundant code in the find procedure for
> values of path other than 1: the manual says only one path allowed. It appears
> that specifying the "passed values" access, followed by the normal "request"
> access, generates the find I want, although it's probably not supported code.
>
> I've not been on the advanced courses myself, although colleagues have, despite
> my opposition. I think it's more important to learn 'the Powerhouse way': one
> of my colleagues ALWAYS generated & included every procedure in case he wanted
> to modify it ever after the advanced course. I'm sure he wasn't taught to do
> that, but I think the advanced course knowledge is more danger than use,
> especially to a retraining 3gl programmer. I've had no trouble picking up
> procedural code for myself from the nice manual. In my view, the most important
> lesson about modifying the default procedures is "DON'T" - there are
> exceptions, but not many.
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Chris Sharman                   Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
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