Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Help! Boss wants to know why ILE?
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:36:34 -0400
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Ask her how she would convince someone to move from RPGII to RPGIII.

Subfiles. We already have templates to put arrays into fields on the
screen.
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But where the rubber meets the road is new functionality.
What actually will get you that new functionality? There are just some
things that I've not seen done without ILE. Examples include:
- Scott Klement's IFS APIs
- Calls to java to read/write pretty Excel files directly.
- Calls to java to access SQL Server data.

Rob Berendt

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