RE: RPG and SQL Compilers

System 3 15D had a 32 k max program size.  Serious shoehorning was employed
to make an interactive program fit in there.  We had one program that was
never more than 500 bytes from the limit - usually about 100 bytes.

(speaking for myself)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of D.BALE@handleman.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:21 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: RPG and SQL Compilers


Well, I speak from painful experience that S/36 RPG-II programs definitely
had
a 64K program object size limit.  Didn't matter what size S/36 you had.
Though syntax errors bombed the compile within a few/several minutes, it
took
an hour for the compile to tell you that you had exceeded the 64K limit.
Man,
I don't miss those days!

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
This would happen on very small .. AS400's.  I have never seen this happen,
since the AS400 basically works with vertual memory, in the form of
overlays... as RPG II and III did in the AS400 and prior systems from
previous generations..

Gene Hockemeyer
Sunbeam Corporation
Manager EDI and EC Business Development
561 912-4877
hockemg@sunbeam.com


-----Original Message-----
From: D.BALE@handleman.com [mailto:D.BALE@handleman.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:56 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: RPG and SQL Compilers


>It really is stupid that the vendors don't switch.  JDE in
>particular - many of their users _have_ to convert some of
>the programs to RPG IV because they are too damn big to compile
>with RPG III the minute you make even a simple change to them.

Uh, there's such a thing as "too big to compile" with RPG-III?  How so that
RPG-IV is not likewise limited?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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