Re: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

Hi Jim,

All of your points are valid (and you have my sympathy having to work with this
code), but they apply when converting RPG II to RPG III.

I think the real point here is in going from RPG III to RPG IV. I know, there is
still a lot of 36 code out there, but there is an awful lot more 38/400 code 
which
is ripe for conversion to RPG IV.

I go with Bucks learning curve, I just think we have to be honest and add 10 
minutes
for the new format of the F Spec and the D Spec ;-)

By the way, wasn't there an RPG II to RPG III conversion tool out there at one
stage?

Paul

Jim Langston wrote:

> Well, take for instance the program I am converting to RPG IV from
> RPG II.  My boss wanted me to modify a program to do some selection
> on a report.  The current report goes through the entire file looking for
> data that meets certain criteria and once finding it in the primary chains
> to a bunch of other files and grabs data, then prints it.
>
> <snip>
>
> Time involved converting RPG II to RPG IV 5+
>
> Now, if I was writing this from scratch, it would be much, much faster to
> write it in RPGIV then RPGII, but legacy exists.
>
> There is good and bad in this though.  My new program is going to be
> ILE, or RPG IV anyway, I'm not going to link anything to it.  The original
> program I copied this from, however, is still RPGII.  Argh!
>

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