Re: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hello, all:

I think someone simply neglected to install the "System/38 Environment"
support, a free optional component of OS/400. Installing this installs the
QSYS38 library that has many System/38 compatible commands, like RPLLIBL.
(It is option 6 in V5R3.  Option 5 is the System/36 environment support.)

If you had done this, you should NOT have had to change anything -- not a
single line of source code... your CLP38 programs should still run...
especially if they were running on V3R7 ... (under the System/38
environment)...

(Who did the upgrade planning? Maybe your IBM business partner?  Shame on
them! )

Of course, it probably is about time you converted this old CLP38 stuff over
to "native" OS/400 CLP, anyway, no?

Cheers,

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:28 PM
> Subject: RE: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic
>

> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joe Pluta wrote:
>
> > First off, a whole SLEW of things in CL don't work from S/38 to AS/400,
> > including the dot notation for libraries and objects.  I wasn't talking
> > about CL, which is far closer tied to the OS than RPG.
> >
> > Second, the RPLLIBL issue has been hashed to death on this list alone
> > about six MILLION times (many of them by Al Barsa).  Do a search on the
> > keywords Barsa, library and list.  If you weren't prepared for that,
> > then you simply didn't do your homework.  No sympathy here.
>
> Joe, this sounds just like saying, "You upgraded to Windows Whatever and
> now you expect things to keep working?  You obviously didn't do your
> homework."  Come on, you can't give the Microsoft people a hard time about
> backwards compatibility with statements like, "If you weren't prepared for
> that, then you simply didn't do your homework.  No sympathy here."
>
> > Third, if the only thing you had to change was RPLLIBL and the source
> > member type and you're still bitching, then you seriously have all warp
> > power diverted to the clue deflector shields.  Try taking a 10-year old
> > Windows C program and running it on Windows XP.  Tell me how many things
> > you have to change.
> >
> > Then to get back to reality for a moment, tell us exactly how many RPG
> > programs you had to change.
>
> The reality is simple:  we had a working system on V3R7 that didn't work
> on V5R3.  In order to make it work we had to change some things.  Not tons
> of things, but some.  I'm not bitching, just pointing out our experience
> earlier this week.  Now tell me, why do I deserve to be flamed over it?
>
> James Rich
>
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