RE: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform -- MIDRANGE-L

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I'm confused. It sounds like you want to use SQL as the sole language for your app suite, but that can't be right.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mohammad Tanveer [mailto:surgum@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:49 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform

Thanks for your information. I will consider all of it.

My idea is to migrate RPG into SQL/CLI procedures on System i First; in such a way that it is easily portable to another platform like db2 on windows or SQL Server or Oracle. We have a home grown application developed over 30 years of hard work..its becoming impossible to find new generation and motivate them to work on RPG regardless of which flavor it is.. New generation is coming out of school using SQL and its easy for them to pick up SQL and support the application.

Re-writing 30 year old RPG code into java is an option too but I think it will not be as efficient... it might even require a lot of software engineering and might become difficult to support..

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