Re: Old Rpg to RPG/ILE

have been management wanting to not alter the in-house staff's projects,

It depends if they want to allocate the time to do it right, or just want a
quicker, dirtier fix.
jim franz

To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: Old Rpg to RPG/ILE

Thanks Buck for your contribution.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Buck
Sent: 26 October 2006 17:45
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Old Rpg to RPG/ILE

We currently have some very important and

> very old, RPGII systems that run on the AS/400.
-snip-

I am canvassing anybody who has had a similar path

> to follow to share their experience and
> perhaps a few approaches that may soften our
> workload to achieve our stated aims.

In my opinion, if a programmer can understand RPG IV, she can understand
RPG II just as easily.  Especially since a mass conversion is only going
to create RPG II code stuffed into RPG IV columns.  The other way round
is even easier if you ask me (if I can do that, anyone can!)

Don't think of this project as a massive rewrite that has to take place
all in one go.  Rather, consider the new things management want from
WAS/J2EE, and write new code that takes you there.  An example is the
stored procedure.  iSeries is so cool, we can write a subprocedure in
RPG IV, package it in a service program and have many client programs
use that function.  As a first step to the web, we can call it from an
RPG-CGI program that gets fired by a client web browser.  Without any
changes to the code, we can ALSO register it as a stored procedure and
call it from a Java bean!

I'm in favour of having programmers do the development, rather than try
to have a tool do a mass conversion.  I believe that in the end, you'll
need those skills to maintain the modern application, so why go through
the trouble of learning a tool on top of learning the new skills?  I'm
sure others will have different ideas, and that's the value of this list!
  --buck
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