Re: [Junk released by Allow List] Re: Convert from free to fixed

["sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry -

RPGIV code can be fixed-format, free-format, or a combination of the two.

Consider the meaning of the three-letter acronym - ILE represents an 
environment, not a language.

The "Integrated Language Environment" gives you the ability to write a HLL 
program which can use every language available on the system, i.e. the ILE 
is the "glue" that gives /your/ ILE program the ability to utilize functions 
/ methods / sub-procedures from service programs supplied by IBM or written 
by you in any of the other ILE languages.

- sjl



Jerry wrote:
  Correct me if I'm in error (seriously, it's been known to happen)
  but I thought in order to be ILE RPG it had to use service programs,
  methods/calls to other languages (such as C or Java), binding, or such.
  That is, a program that was just, to say simply,
  Read-a-Record and Write-a-Record was *just* RPG IV.
  Or is a simple inquiry (data file, display file, some logic,
  nothing else really) write in IV syntax an ILE program?