RE: Date compare Best Practices

I have to strongly agree with Scott.
That kind of thinking is what will cause that shop's employer to move off
the OS/400 platform. "We can't do that with our computer, so let's replace
it with XYZ."  Believe me, its coming.  
RPG IV won't solve that problem, but if you education your staff and get the
proficient in RPG IV and new stuff, you will certainly be able to do things
that are relatively difficult or impractical to do with RPGIII.
-Bob Cozzi


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces+cozzi=rpgiv.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces+cozzi=rpgiv.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott
Mildenberger
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:01 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Date compare Best Practices

If your shop moved to RPG IV the increase in productivity would
help them catch up on their backlog and respond to new requests
in a more timely manner.  In my opinion, the excuse to move
forward because you are too busy is a poor one.  

Scott Mildenberger

--- simafrog <SimaFrog@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the case where I am, the shop using the cycle, O specs for
> output, etc... IMO they are swamped with work, and cannot
> afford the investment of time that it would take. Most of the
> employees have been there since early 90's. This is what they
> know. If they have to quickly put out a fire, they want to be
> able to understand the program immediatly. BTW, they do have
> standards. One extra snippet of code that I wrote was rejected
> (double IF's). Reports must look exactly a certain way. 
> It makes sense when you see the pressure that they are under.
> That is the explanation for my current place. My first decent
> job in 18 months so I won't even go there in terms of why they
> won't change, because I am happy.
> 



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