RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?

Bob,

Not trying to be harsh, or start a flame war, but....

You'd be up a creek.

So what?  

Are you running on an i5 with v5r3 now or an 8xx with v5r2 now?

Are you doing new development, or just maintaining the old stuff?

If the shop is static, which it sounds like your is, then the shop is
static.  

If IBM dropped support for RPG III and RPG38, then you'd not be able to go
beyond v5rx, would you really care?


Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Programmer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 
ps.  Note sure exactly what System 38 RPG is... RPG36 source type?  How is
it different than RPG38 source type?
Linoma's RPG Wizard converts RPG38 to RPGLE.  Wasn't too expensive.  In
fact, we got cash back for buying it using the IBM Server Proven rebate.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Anderson [mailto:banderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?
> 
> 
> Charles,
>       CVTRPGSRC is fine for RPG III but what about us that 
> still have a lot of
> System 36 RPG still running. We are a 1 man shop here and I 
> would gladly
> move it all to RPG IV if I had a Good/Free way of doing it.  
> The bucks just
> don't exist to pay for it 1. because it still works great and 
> 2 I can't even
> get them to spring for the SQL Devol kit that I would love to have in
> addition to some of Bob's tools
> 
> 
> Bob Anderson
>