Re: OS version for RDI

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Vern and Joe:

Thanks for the kind words. ;-)

Jerry:

> Jerry Adams wrote:
> Works fine if the OPM ("heritage") compiler you're talking about is 
> RPG/400 (III).  I had about a dozen RPG/400 programs left over from a 
> contractor that preceded me here; took about five minutes to convert 
> (moving to /free was a bit harder because of the MOVE's).  Not so 
> straightforward with RPG36 (II).
>   
Point duly noted. Customers with really old legacy code (e.g. RPGII) 
should probably invest in a tool to convert those programs to "native" 
RPG/400 or RPG IV, or manually rewrite them, or just pony up the extra 
$$$ to IBM to continue to license the OPM compilers.
> Also, there are some important differences between the way that CL and 
> CLLE function.  These have been discussed before so I'm sure one could 
> find them in the archives.  I know that the OVRDBF command bit me a time 
> or two, but that was because of my lack of understanding at the time of 
> activation groups.
>   
I did not suggest that a customer would need to convert all CLP *PGMs to 
CLLE right away. IBM has never charged extra for the CL compilers 
(CRTCLPGM, CRTBNDCL and CRTCLMOD commands). Since "CL" is the command 
language of i5/OS and OS/400, the CL compilers were included with the 
"base" OS license, and so I expect this would not change.  Note also 
that CRTBNDCL has a default of ACTGRP(*DFTACTGRP), aka. "OPM 
compatibility mode."