Re: IBM's VARPG - What can it and cant it do.

Let's you have 200 people using an application using VARPG.  This 
application is an addon to a purchased application.  Now you plan 
on upgrading the vendors version.  You want to implement this over 
a weekend.  You do have the liberty of scheduling this weekend out 
a month.  What would your steps be?





sjohnson@highsmith.com on 06/01/99 01:20:35 PM
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The simplest answer to that question is to do the turorials.  The one 
that comes with it and the on the web one.
Also go thru the samples that comes with it.
This should give a good in sight as to what it can do and maybe
can't do.           http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/varpg

I have used it quite a bit.  It can do LOTS.  You can read AS/400
files just like you can with a RPG IV pgm on the 400. Plus, you
can access flat files and ODBC enabled files on the PC/Network.
And with the latest release you can use ActiveX.  This pretty
much opens you up to a whole new world.  And talking about a
new world, you can now generate Java with the new version.
IBM justs keeps making it better and better with each release.
They also tend to release new things in their Service Packs.
So, VARPG is always changing and getting better.  IBM is always 
coming up with new ways to make your VARPG coding a lot easier.

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Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> Im planning on tinkering with VARPG, and want to know what VARPG can and
> cannot do, what it does very well, and what it does badly.
> 
> Colin.W
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