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In my opinion, the problem is, far too many RPG/400 programmers were "fat, dumb and happy" and continued to just stick their head in the sand and ignored RPG IV and ILE and just kept on plodding along with good old RPGIII.
(Heck, I even knew of one shop that continued to use the 'real' RPG-III and CLP38 and compiled everything to run in the System/38 environment, long after the AS/400 was introduced, and they no longer had any real System/38 hardware.)

So, now, here we are, 15 years after ILE was first introduced (at V2R3, mind you), and far too small a percentage of typical i5/OS or OS/400 applications programmers know very much of anything about ILE.

Oh, well, at least RPG IV is finally catching on. But I suspect that far too many are still using it as a "better RPG/400" via the CRTBNDRPG command. Perhaps IBM made it a little too easy to remain complacent?

That's my 2 cents worth.

What's yours?

> Tom Liotta wrote:
That's an interesting staff -- Coding parms/structures for calling the QUSRJOBI API is considered less complex than coding/calling what could conceivably be a 4-line ILE CL module (includes PGM PARM(), DCL and RETURN)...

Seems like a topic for general discussion.

Tom Liotta

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