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Hi Tom

How could this become a "management approval" item? How is it different
from using an API that 
became available for V5R1 or a new IBM command? Especially, how is it
different from using a new 
%bif or any other feature of a language?

It's very different because it has an impact on the whole RPG programming
department.  Use of a new %BIF or command can have an impact - I've been in
a number of sites where new %BIFs weren't allowed because of variations in
operating system levels.  

The change to free format RPG requires some degree of a learning curve which
by its nature will reduce the programming efficiency of the programmer
involved and there is also the problem of having to maintain something you
may not be familiar with.  A lot of places will stick with fixed format RPG
purely because that's what their programmers know and is also what their
packaged software is written in.  

I've worked at a number of sites in the UK and at one of them, a major
automotive company, a contractor had to ask for permission to code a program
in RPG IV simply to get around a field/record size limit.  That was 5-6
years ago and I doubt if there programming standards have changed much since
then.

Jonathan




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