RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?

["Bob Anderson" <banderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,
        CVTRPGSRC is fine for RPG III but what about us that still have a lot of
System 36 RPG still running. We are a 1 man shop here and I would gladly
move it all to RPG IV if I had a Good/Free way of doing it.  The bucks just
don't exist to pay for it 1. because it still works great and 2 I can't even
get them to spring for the SQL Devol kit that I would love to have in
addition to some of Bob's tools


Bob Anderson

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Subject: RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?


Walden,

I tend to agree with you....BUT... I'm getting to the point where I'm
wondering if forcing die-hard RPG II/III off the platform would be a bad
thing.


Sure, one of the strengths iSeries is the protection of a companies software
investment.  But, I'm wondering if you can take it to far.  And if by taking
it to far, you hurt the platforms future.


I say drop the RPG III complier all together.  If you want to keep up on
hardware and OS, you have to at least CVTRPGSRC.  Now, if there was only a
way to force the use of ILE RPG IV as opposed to what I call RPG II/III
using RPG IV syntax.


just my .02

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Programmer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walden H. Leverich [mailto:WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?
>
>
> >Dropping enhancements to the compiler, etc, should get people to
> >move quickly,
>
> Be careful what you with for. I'm sure (I know) there are sites out
> there that are happy where they are. If you forced them to move to a
> later release/language (RPGIV) then they may move... To another
> platform.
>
> Look, I'm not arguing that moving off the iSeries would be smart, and
> I'm not arguing that that change from RPGIII to RPGIV is a
> major change,
> but you WILL run into people that say "If I have to change, I might as
> well change a lot"
>
> -Walden
>
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