Hi,
I recently met Todd Britton (Director of Products & Strategy, Enterprise
Tools & Compilers Rational Software) here in Germany. We talked about RPG
and EGL and the future of both. Todd confirmed that the IBM RPG development
will continue and it is not expected or planned that EGL will displace RPG.
In either way RPG should be written modular according the ILE concepts and
not in an old OPM style with big monolithic programs. Also no coding any
more in RPGIII! If an RPGIII program must be changed it should at least be
converted into RPGIV.
EGL is a good solution to replace old green screen display files
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
Birgitta Hauser
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." (Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"
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Von: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Joe Pluta
Gesendet: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 16:26
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; RPG programming on the AS400 /
iSeries; EGL on and around the IBM i
Betreff: EGL and RPG - The Fastest Path to the Future
There's been some discussion both on and off the list about what EGL
bodes for the future of the platform and specifically RPG. I've been
pretty clear in my opinion that EGL may be the best thing to happen to
RPG since the display file, but I've heard a lot of muttering that "IBM
is going to kill RPG".
To find the truth, you have to recognize that IBM isn't a single
monolithic entity. While there is definitely a segment of the EGL team
that believes EGL can do anything RPG can do, another segment
understands full well that there are billions of lines of RPG code out
there - the last thing I read was that we're actually *adding* four
billion lines a year - and that a fundamental requirement of efficient
modernization involves taking advantage of that legacy code... and those
legacy programmers!
If you'd like to see a discussion of this issue that falls more in line
with this view of modernization, go here:
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/february08/qa/19749p1.aspx
Joe
midrange.com
