Re: Moving to RPG 4

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Nice overview, One thing that I would like to add, is that since RPG off all 
flavors have a bias
towards fixed column formatting of the language, there was a radical change in 
the shift from RPG3 to
RPGIV.

One can take an RPG36 source member and change it to RPG with possibly a 
minimal amount of compile
failures, but to change a RPGLE source member to RPG guarantees compile 
failures.  The specs have a
new, expanded, format.

Jim Langston wrote:

> RPG36 = S36 RPG = RPG II
> RPG = RPG 400 = RPG III
> RPGLE = RPG IV which can be used to create RPG ILE
>
> The reason you have to use RPGLE is so your compiler knows to use the RPG IV 
>compiler
> to create the program.  If you use RPG it uses the RPG III compiler, which 
>does not have
> the extended C and D specs, as you state.

<<snip>>

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