Re: Convert RPGIV to RPGIII or RPG/400

Um, how about running the CVTRPGPGMR command?  <g>

Fer cryin' out loud!  RPG III-to-IV is such an easy learning curve.  I have yet 
to
run into a -III programmer who could not read my -IV code and not know what it 
was
doing.  Typical response - "wow, that *is* easier to read!"

Usually the questions I get from a -IV newbie are related to D-specs; you know, 
how
do you do arrays?  data structures?  compile-time arrays?  Maybe I should 
create a
cheat-sheet for that.  I never show them a program right off the bat that does
anything that cannot be done in RPG-III (i.e., %bifs, EVAL statements); all I 
want
them to see up front is how easy it is to convert from -III to -IV.  Let them 
go for
a couple of weeks just doing RPG-III-style coding in -IV syntax, then start
introducing "newer" stuff.

Of course, if you can send them all to get RPG-IV training, well, you've 
whacked a
bigger chunk off the learning curve.

Having said all that, it may well depend on your "position" on the programming
staff.  You may be in no position to demand this of the other programmers, or 
your
sphere of influence may be zero, in which case you'll be spitting in the wind.  
Been
there, done that.

GA
--- fkany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Are there any tools to convert RPGIV code to RPGIII or RPG/400 code?
> 
> I converted an RPGIII program program to RPGIV so that I could read and
> understand the code.  Since most of the programmers here don't program in
> RPGIV I wouldn't want to cause a problem by installing the converted code,
> so I'd like to change the program back to RPGIII or RPG/400 so that anyone
> here can continue to maintain this program.
> 
> I kept a copy of the RPGIII source code for the program if I wanted to
> convert my RPGIV code to RPGIII code and manually enter it, but I was just
> wondering if there was a tool to do this automatically.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Frank


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