Re: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment

Hi, Mark

They took part of the environment from Unibol and the old baby/400.  Very
close in terms of iseries replication, also runs on Linux.  I agree tech
support was horrible, specially around '97,'98.  They integrated the Unibol
support team in Europe with the one in California. I think you'll find it to
be WAY better.  Hope that helps.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment


> Mike,
>
> At 3/14/03 07:36 PM, you wrote:
> >BABY/iSeries from California Software is supported in .net and is much
> >easier to use than ASNA and is available now.
>
> 1)  How compatible are they to original code migrated from the /400?
There
> are going to be some obvious differences due to platform and file system
> anomalies, but is there a conversion utility that will rectify these
> differences?
>
> 2)  How is their tech support now?  The last time I dealt w/ them their
> tech support was *horrible*!
>
>   -mark
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:48 AM
> >Subject: RE: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment
> >
> >
> > > Visual Age for RPG is NOT supported in the .NET environment.
> > > What is or will be shortly supported is Asna's RPG compiler, which is
much
> > > easier to use than the IBM Visual Age tool.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
> > > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:34 AM
> > > To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> > > Subject: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment
> > >
> > >
> > > Last week my manager had me attend a .NET session and I was totally
blown
> > > away to say the least.  I have kinda been against Microsoft in the
past,
> >but
> > > the tools and concepts that they are coming out with are definitely
> >leading
> > > the pack (from what I have seen).
> > >
> > > Anyways, on to my question. . .  Has anyone used Visual Age RPG in the
> >.NET
> > > environment?  Yes it is supported as a .NET language, which means you
can
> > > use the M$ Visual Studio IDE to build and create your apps.  Here is
the
> > > link if you don't believe me:-)
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/asna.asp
> > >
> > > TIA for any experience anybody can share,
> > > Aaron Bartell
>
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