Re: RPGII to RPG IV

<quote> is a total dogs breakfast of RPGII, RPGIII, and RPGIV.</quote>
My experience with several systems like that, it has always been a
management
decision to limit the scope of the conversion project. Whatever cost savings
were
acheived at the time has totally been lost in the maintenance cost over the
years.
I have been very clear about the "quick fix/conversion" vs proper coding
standards,
but it never happens. Its been a long time since finding a mgr interested in
the long
term maintenance costs of software (i know some are on this list).
Current proj RPG IV is banned (mgr can't read it...and has no interest in
learning).
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raby, Steve (GE Advanced Materials, consultant)" <steve.raby@xxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:30 AM
Subject: RE: RPGII to RPG IV


> Be very careful here in what you want to end up with. The system I work on
is a total dogs breakfast of RPGII, RPGIII, and RPGIV. The company converted
to AS400 about 5-6 years ago from S36, however some bright spark decided
that they would not convert everything to RPG400
> because they had so much experience in RPGII (even then I am doubtful
about that statement) and so we spend most of the processing time converting
from flat files to externally described files and back again. Needless to
say these *&*(^(^&^% conversion programs are the bane of my life!
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:46 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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