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Re: S36EE and S38EE RPG Compilers

Frank,
I heard the same thing (here, I think) awhile back. Confirmed it through both some IBM web page and at COMMON last month.
When I came to work here, the company was 99% RPG II (a few RPG III pgms) and running in the 36 environment. Supposedly my primary task, when hired, was to convert the system to "native" (they didn't specify but to me that meant, among other things, RPG IV). However, business pressures have pushed that project into the background. We're still running in the 36 environment; I still maintain RPG II code and OCL. However, for what it's worth, all of the new stuff is RPG IV and CL.
But without a compelling business reason there simply is no need to convert the old code. It works and does the job. Whenever it doesn't, then I convert or re-write the function, or put a hook (CALL) in the RPG II pgm or procedure to an RPG IV or CL pgm. I'm hoping that the PRPQ, if IBM prices it high enough, will put a burr in someone's saddle so that I can actually do the conversion. The price point, for us, has to be at least close to the cost of a conversion tool so that it is a wash in our financial people's minds. 


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Frank.Kolmann@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I heard IBM was considering making the RPGII and RPGIII compilers in S36EE and S38EE PRPQs 
from V5R5.
Does anyone still use RPGIII or RPG II (wash my mouth out) or the EE environments. 
Just curious.

Frank Kolmann

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