Re: For all those COMMON old-timers

I thought you might have meant you would be "higher"ed to raise the release level!


Cheers (and it is nearing end of day!)
Vern


On Fri, 22 Mar, 2024 at 4:44 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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that should have been "hired" not "highered" ... although I guess if they
are still on v5r2, they might be smoking something! :D

And I'd have probably said CVTRPGSRC to turn it into RPG III+

I don't consider such source to be RPG IV unless you add some RPG IV only
syntax.

Nor do I consider it ILE RPG unless you are using procedures (preferably in
service programs)

Charles

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

CVTRPGSRC?

To at least convert to RPG IV.

The cases where it can't work are damm few. I've never actually hit one
in the 27 years I've been using it.

As far as the v5r2...I'd run away unless my first job if highered was to
get them on a supported version.

Charles

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM Thomas Burrows <
thomas.burrows.1957@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:thomas.burrows.1957@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Today in an interview I was asked what would be the major concerns about
an
upgrade going from V5R2 to V7R5. I pointed out that V5R2 went out of
support in April 30 2007. So I asked the interviewer if they really had a
platform still running a release level that had been out of support for
nearly SIXTEEN years? And had the hardware had any issues????

Another question is how would a RPGIII program be updated when it was not
possible to just convert to /FREE. I pointed out that according to the
GODS
at IBM Rochester that any compiled program from I guess any compiled
RPGII program should be able to run on the current release level.



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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Brad Stone wrote:

And the ash tray was sitting right next to the coffee cup with 3 or 4
burning smokes.. haha.

You all sound like these guys...

https://youtu.be/VKHFZBUTA4k?si=b73v-XtDmNI5Xe7J




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