RE: Free of RPG/400

[<lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're absolutely right about being in the vendor's mercy with regard to
technology. Unfortunately, we'll probably be on another ERP system
before the vendor updates to ILE. (Not to mention the Synon tools
lacking observability.)

                          Display Program Information

 

 Program  . . . . . . . :   YYRTMSC       Library  . . . . . . . :
Y1SY       
 Owner  . . . . . . . . :   QSYS

 Program attribute  . . :   CLP

 

 Program creation information:

   Program creation date/time . . . . . . . . . . . :   09/16/96
05:21:42      
   Type of program  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   OPM

   Source file  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   QCLSRC

     Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :     Y1SRC

   Source member  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   YYRTMSC

   Source file change date/time . . . . . . . . . . :   08/21/96
07:53:16      
   Observable information . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NONE

   User profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *USER

   Use adopted authority  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *YES

   Log commands (CL program)  . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO

   Allow RTVCLSRC (CL program)  . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO

   Fix decimal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO

 
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Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
TS Water Valley
662-473-5713

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:12
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Free of RPG/400

Also, I beleive CA AllFusion Advantage 2E (aka. Synon) has supported ILE

RPG-IV (and ILE COBOL) for quite a few years now, so I would also ask 
the vendor why they continue to generate the now obsolete RPG/400 ... 
the OPM RPG/400 compiler had no new features added since V2R3 (it has 
been "bug fix" only since the introduction of RPG IV with V3R1/V3R6).

How many other vendors are still shipping RPG/400 source?  This is one 
of the major things that is "hurting" the image of the platform and 
keeping people from moving forward, IMO.

> lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Mark, that's a great idea if CVTRPGSRC comes with the ILE compilers. I
> haven't used it much so forgot about it. The biggest issue is source
> comparison. If we converted the original source first and saved it as
> "original", then we could more easily find any changes.
>
> Loyd Goodbar
> Senior programmer/analyst
> BorgWarner
> TS Water Valley
> 662-473-5713
>   
> >   
> >