Re: RPG on OS/390

I think it's because no one cares about RPG except iSeries folks. If a bunch
of people wanted to port RPG to mainframes (or anything else), IBM would
probably update the mainframe compiler.

On 3/10/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >It's SAA RPG which is effectively RPG II.
>
> Well.  There goes that opportunity :-)
>
> So did the enhancements just get dropped way back in the day for OS/390.
> Are there different compiler teams for the different IBM OS's when talking
> RPG?
>
> Does the iSeries <cough> System i5 get a lot more development dollars
> thrown
> at it for language development?
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
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> Subject: Re: RPG on OS/390
>
>
> On 10/03/2006, at 4:52 PM, albartell wrote:
>
> > I was recently asked if I could port some RPG code I wrote over to an
> > IBM OS/390 machine. I did a little research and found that OS/390 does
> > support RPG, though I don't know how up to date it is (I have very
> > little knowledge of OS/390 as you can probably tell :-).
> >
> > Has anybody out there written RPG for OS/390 and if so how different
> > is it from writing on OS/400?
>
> It's SAA RPG which is effectively RPG II.
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
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