RE: EXTNAME questions...

Scott,

I to am sharing the S36 files with ILE RPG.  I was going to ignore the
flame, but since you responded.  Here is our approach to re-writing the old
S36 applications to new fancy native ILE applications with minimal impact.

1. Create external definitions for the S36 files - using exact record
layout.
2. Convert the RPG II source to RPG III, minimal changes needed.
3. Convert the OCL to CLLE re-doing the logic.  (The hardest part, IMHO)
4. Convert the RPG III to RPG IV and take advantage of the native file
descriptions,  Opps, have to rename the file now kus the compiler won't
allow the dot in the file name.

Now you have a completely native application that you can add all the bells
and whistles to.  Oh by the way the changes we done with very little impact
on the system and very little IS resources used to implement.



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:infosys@klements.com]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:37 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: EXTNAME questions...


Sort of.  I share the same files between S/36 RPG and ILE RPG
programs.  Fortunately, its rare that we use dots in our filenames :)
Most of the Sys/36 stuff doesn't use a dot (tho there are a few
exceptions)

But, the ability for them to coexist on the same files is crucial...

Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com> wrote:
>
> But do you see people banging out ILE RPG for the S/36 environment?
>
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