RE: RPG36 using externally described files

I just went through my "toolkit" and found a command that I had written a 
looong time ago when I had to support customers in mixed native/S36 
environment. Similar to another command that I retrieved from one of the 
mid-range sites, FI2DDS, this command is DDS2FI. It will take a DDS source 
member and create the corresponding RPG F&I specifications.

If you think it might be of some use, I'd be happy to pass it along.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Pat Barber
Sent:   Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:03 AM
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject:        Re: RPG36 using externally described files

That's not correct. Any RPG36 program can use a external file
just fine. They can't use the external descriptions, but they
work just fine.

You are correct that conversion from RPG36 to RPG requires a few lines
of change, but  you should have mentioned that the programs will react
much differently and that requires several operational changes.

An example of that is that a RPG36 program can create file, while a
RPG program can not. This is a major difference. The conversion process
requires some thought and planning.


Booth Martin wrote:
>
> RPG36 programs won't deal with externally described files or with logical
> files.
>
> You will want to convert the program(s) to RPG. This is quite simple and
> straight forward. RPG36 supports a few keywords that are not supported in
> RPG, but unless your programs use WSU you will not have a major problem 
with
> the conversion to RPG. Just change the program type from RPG36 to RPG and
> try to compile. There will be a few lines to fix, but surprisingly few, 
and
> after you have done a few programs you'll be fixing the programs even 
before
> you try compiling. Once the programs are converted to RPG then the hard 
work
> starts.
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