RE: Free of RPG/400

You're absolutely right about being in the vendor's mercy with regard to
technology. Unfortunately, we'll probably be on another ERP system
before the vendor updates to ILE. (Not to mention the Synon tools
lacking observability.)

Display Program Information



Program . . . . . . . : YYRTMSC Library . . . . . . . :
Y1SY
Owner . . . . . . . . : QSYS

Program attribute . . : CLP



Program creation information:

Program creation date/time . . . . . . . . . . . : 09/16/96
05:21:42
Type of program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : OPM

Source file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QCLSRC

Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Y1SRC

Source member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : YYRTMSC

Source file change date/time . . . . . . . . . . : 08/21/96
07:53:16
Observable information . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE

User profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *USER

Use adopted authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *YES

Log commands (CL program) . . . . . . . . . . . : *NO

Allow RTVCLSRC (CL program) . . . . . . . . . . : *NO

Fix decimal data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *NO


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Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
TS Water Valley
662-473-5713

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:12
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Free of RPG/400

Also, I beleive CA AllFusion Advantage 2E (aka. Synon) has supported ILE

RPG-IV (and ILE COBOL) for quite a few years now, so I would also ask
the vendor why they continue to generate the now obsolete RPG/400 ...
the OPM RPG/400 compiler had no new features added since V2R3 (it has
been "bug fix" only since the introduction of RPG IV with V3R1/V3R6).

How many other vendors are still shipping RPG/400 source? This is one
of the major things that is "hurting" the image of the platform and
keeping people from moving forward, IMO.

lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Mark, that's a great idea if CVTRPGSRC comes with the ILE compilers. I
haven't used it much so forgot about it. The biggest issue is source
comparison. If we converted the original source first and saved it as
"original", then we could more easily find any changes.

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
TS Water Valley
662-473-5713