RE: RPGII to RPG IV

Bob,

I'm not familiar with RPG II and it's multi-format internal files.

But.....couldn't you just create multiple external files and a multi-format
logical for the new RPG to access?

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:cozzi@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 3:46 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RPGII to RPG IV
> 
> 
> Has anyone moved an old RPGII program to RPGIII and then 
> RPGIV in recent
> months?
> I'm specifically wondering about approaches to move the 
> program-described
> database files to externally describd.
> Most of that is obvious, but what about multi-format files? 
> Do people simply
> do a rewrite of the app in that situation or is there some 
> simpler method to
> handle them?
>  
> -Bob
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