RE: Required products for a new i user?

["McKown, John" <John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:51 AM
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> Subject: RE: Required products for a new i user?
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> the compilers are bundled together but in v6.1 of the OS there's 2 
> separate bundles "Heritage" and ILE compilers.  the Heritage compiler 
> contains the OPM compilers (RPG, COBOL,C,C++,CLP) the ILE 
> compilers are 
> the ILE versions of the same.  RPG on the i is nothing like on a 
> mainframe....IIRC RPG II is the only flavor on the mainframe 
> (never worked 
> with mainframe but have looked it up once upon a time so it may have 
> changed).  but the pricing on the compilers isn't that bad 
> anyway. someone 
> mentioned X-Analysis...i prefer Hawkeye personally, even 
> though Z-Analysis 
> provides all of the GUI goodness it's far overpriced and you 
> have to pay 
> extra for add-ons that are part of the base package of 
> Hawkeye.  (Hawkeye 
> does have a GUI tool but it's still in it's infancy IMO)...
>
> if you do go to RPG i'd recommend moving straight into 
> free-format RPG and 
> using ILE concepts.  it will be to your advantage, if you 
> have to face the 
> learning curve why learn the "old" methodology and syntax??  
> just my 2 coppers

Ah! I must have been reading something old, then. The thing that made my
stomach churn was the "fixed format" with multiple different types of
statements, all of which look different. Free format I can probably go
with.

> Thanks,
> Tommy Holden


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