It is essential that you make an intelligent use of standards in order to take full advantage of the IBM midrange architecture. The OS/400 has many standards, both explicit and implicit, with which you need to conform in order to provide applications that are robust, maintainable, and easy to use.
Standards can be viewed as actual productivity tools. By adopting good standards, you can simplify both your design and development.
Standards reduce the amount of work you need to do to produce a given result. Those aspects of a specification that are covered by your normal standards can be removed from the picture, leaving only the essentials specific to the problem in hand to be solved. This can significantly reduce the amount time needed to communicate between people at all stages of the development process: design, programming, testing, and user training.
Standards can also improve the quality of your software. Good standards should embody established techniques for approaching commonly encountered development problems.
The inherent capabilities of IBM iSeries can be complemented by providing additional productivity tools that build upon OS/400. This manual provides you with indications of where such aids can be useful.
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