RE: Convert to Windows??

Hi Sal,

I wanted to commend you on your move from the dreaded "green-screen" to
something a little more modern.  We're currently stuck in the stone age
of data presentation to the users here in our environment.  This paper
will give me the evidence that I can bring to management that we're not
all doomed to a limited palette and 24x80 resolutions! :)

The problem we have here is that the programmers are of the "old world"
thinking and cannot be bothered with webfacing or anything that would
breathe a little life into our apps.  When I build parallel web systems,
they (old-school programmers) are confused and annoyed with the
interface.  They are used to F-Keys and manual inputs rather than
clicking a button.

They even frown upon us using RPG IV ILE because they are used to older
versions of RPG.  They do not understand the limitations that older
version of RPG put on us.  I have actually brought up the idea of
converting our apps to C++, but Java sounds like a good road to follow
as well.

Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sal Stangarone Jr. [mailto:sals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:15 AM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Convert to Windows??

Hi Bill,

Last year we finished doing the same thing with our iSeries software
product.  The first step was to modernize the front end to Java/HTML
using
our tool and calling the existing business logic written in RPG.  We
later
re-wrote that business logic into Java and now we have a product that
plays
everywhere (any database, any platform, any time).  We even wrote a
white
paper about the process.  You can download the white paper at:  
http://www.mrc-productivity.com/whitepapers/mrc_roadmap.pdf

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
 
Sal Stangarone Jr.
michaels, ross & cole, ltd.
 
Phone: 630.916.0662
Fax: 630.916.0663
 
Web: www.mrc-Productivity.com 
 
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See Web applications displaying the kind of AS/400 data you might want
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Corbett
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9:57 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Convert to Windows??

Hi,

I was approached by someone who has a pretty high$ AS400 software
package
and wants to be able to market it to customers with no interest in
purchasing an AS400.maybe windows or java or other  -based?.  This
package
started on a S36 and someone converted it to RPGIV.likely some internal
file
definitions still out there.  I was told that all the "master" files
were
external-ized.

 

Any suggestions on a relatively "simple" (spelled LOWCOST) strategy to
employ?  

 

Thoughts (with questions) that come to my mind are:

1.      I know that VARPG will spit out java code.  How straightforward
/
difficult is it to transform "regular" RPGIV into VARPG?
2.      Is the ASNA Visual RPG an option for this?
3.      Is there any path using Webfacing that can help along this
route?

 

Two options that are already on the table is the possibility of (1)
California Software's Baby400 and (2) running it on a remote iSeries.

 

A complete re-write is not something this client interested in (toooo
expensive).

 

Yeah, yeah, I've already expressed the opinion "just leave it on the
'400".

 

TIA

 

 

William A.(Tony) Corbett

IBM Certified - AS/400 Developer 

 <http://www.asresources.com/> http://www.asresources.com 

corbett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

404-784-4737

fax: 678-935-5005

 

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