RE: RPG III - Object to Source DE-Compiler

["Paul Nelson" <p_nelson-br@xxxxxxxx>]

On the subject of Source Retrieval, Inc. have any of you had them
perform a de-compile for you, or have bought their software?

I've got some clients who are having the screws put to them by their
software provider. They are being told that if they quit paying
maintenance, their right to use the software will be revoked. This is
after they paid the software company big bucks to do modifications to
the base package (and pay again when each upgrade comes out). These
clients have the software working exactly the way they want, and don't
care about upgrading any more. Also the license is tied to the serial
number of the machine. They'd like to stay with IBM, and they'd really
like to get some new machines, but can't without paying the blood money
to the software company. They've bought 99% of the source code already.
There's just a few programs that they don't have ( the license checker
being one).

Any insights are welcome.
Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Rick Rayburn
>
> >I don't think they intentionally delete the source: they just remove
their
> >personal library and everything in it...not realizing they have
production
> >objects operating from their personalized source files. Where I do
get bent
> >is them not copying the tested object into the live source file for
> >re-compilation into production. SO MANY people, who have been around
for SO
> >MANY years, totally blind to the importance of change
management...this
> >particular problem is just a very good example of that.
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> As well as blaming the old rpg3 geezer, what about faulting dp mgmt
for not
> running a dspobjd *service job every month that checks that all
programs
> have been compiled from a production source library.
>
> Steve Richter
>
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