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  • Subject: Re: RPG on other platforms...
  • From: Jon Paris <paris@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:02:24 -0500

One quick comment.  AS/400 COBOL is NOT fully reentrant even if all variables
are defined in Linkage.  The only difference between it and RPG is that RPG
actively stops you from calling the prorgam recursively and COBOL does not.
Sometimes you can get away with it in COBOL, but you have to know what you're
doing and it is NOT supported function - in other words if you encounter a
problem with it, it will not be fixed.

RPG IV procedures can be called recursively because they provide for definition
of local data

RPG program objects can not be run on any other system.  RPG III source can be
recompiled (using third party products like Baby/400 for PCs and Unibol for
Unix) for other platforms, but that's about it.  Forget MVS the version there
is so old it barely qualifies as RPG I !!

Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
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