Re: Open Access to be generally available as part of the RPG compiler

On 2/1/2012 6:51 AM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

I hope that this encourages more developers to work with non-traditional
data sources in RPG - that it helps us all to keep working with the
platform and language that we find to be so productive and robust for
our employers.

Now that OA is free, I think it's got the potential to really be a great tool for a number of things. Some will still see it as a way to modernize existing 5250 programs and I don't think that's a good use of the tool except in the hands of dedicated modernization vendors. But it certainly has the potential to allow enterprising developers to provide access (there's that word!) to technologies that RPG programmers might not otherwise be willing to invest in.

Joe