Re: How many of you will stay at V7R5 lower due to SDA removal ?

Hello Jon,

Am 26.07.2025 um 18:10 schrieb Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The language in question, Jim, is PL/MI.

Thanks for chiming in!

While C and C++ have seen increasing usage in more recent times (i.e. post V2R3 and the arrival of ILE) as far as I am aware very little if any of the older code was ever rewritten.

See my other post: Good enough…

C is used for the more recent stuff like the ILE RPG and COBOL compilers.

Probably because IBM at one point merged the compiler code from OS/390, AIX and i5/OS, to spare three separate product instances to be maintained in parallel.

Interesting thing: With V4R5, the C compiler documentation clearly states it adheres to C89/C90 standards. With V5, this clear "what to expect" is gone.

I could understand all this fuss if SDA were any good

Well, we're talking about people. You say SDA isn't any good. I say, SDA is cumbersome to use for doing actual screen generation. Thats opinions, not facts. :-) Especially considering this is the second time that an SDA-being-cancelled discussion explodes from people more than mourning its passing. :-)

DDS lives on and can still be edited in SEU.

… oder vim, via ftp URLs from a Linux machine. :-)

:wq! PoC