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Just facing the possibility that I'm going to be a "free agent" in a few years. I'm looking at my current skillset, the work I'd prefer to do, and trying to move from A to B.
We're a 5250 shop, and will almost certainly be a 5250 shop until they finally pull the plug on our system. A few years back I did a skunkworks project to create web UI's using CGIDEV2 for a few existing 5250 apps. That was tolerated since it was in RPG but pretty much went nowhere.
RPG is not the "be all, end all" that I used to think, but it's still indispensable. It does JDBC, POI, IFS and JNI, which can handle most problems. On occasion, I think that a given problem would be exponentially easier in an OO language, but that's rare.
5250 is a dead-end. It makes me think of an old movie, "Other People's Money", where Danny DeVito talked about the last factory in America that made buggy whips. It didn't matter that they made the best buggy whips because times were changing, and it was adapt or die.
Books and tutorials give a basic "Dick & Jane" understanding, but I'm hung up on how to move forward. Maybe it's just a form of writers block.
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