RE: Aurora & ILE (was Alliance 2003... )

Richard,

I don't know if anyone has responded to you.  The information below is from
last weeks "Aurora Technical Review" session at Alliance 2003.

Per your question:

1. A "code stripper" is used to strip out any of Geac's modification marks
and modification comments in the SP4 code.
2. The existing source goes through an ILE converter (probably something
like CVTILERPG) and the dates are zeroed (I assume these are the dates that
are on each line of code that denote the date that the particular line was
changed)
3. Standard header sections are applied (????) to the code
4. Copy source paths are corrected.

Some additional information for the techies:

All application and System Manager library names change from the current OSL
prefix to AUL.
New security - public now *EXCLUDE instead of *USE for all objects and they
are controlled by authorization lists.
Most extension files are integrated in the parent physical file.

You must be at V5R1 or above to move to Aurora.

There's plenty more.  This conversion will be a big task but Geac says that
they will help sell Aurora to your executives and assist with coming up with
an ROI.

Good Luck.
  
Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: richard.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:richard.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:41 PM
To: system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Aurora & ILE (was [SYSTEM21] Alliance 2003... )


On Aurora, were any specifics given as to how the coversion to ILE was
approached?   It is one thing to run code through a converter that spits out
the
same thing formatted as ILE,  something else entirely to restructure and
take
advantage of advanced ILE concepts (procedures, service programs, binding,
BIFs,
etc.)

I feel they could not possibily have done the later.  Still a simple
conversion
at least provides a foundation to build from.  Also getting rid of old
comments
should cut the size of the source in half...

Richard Evans
Delta Apparel

PS/Apologies if this has been covered already,  the search function on the
web
archive does not appear to be working

____________________Reply Separator____________________
Subject:    Re: [SYSTEM21]   Alliance 2003... 
Author: System 21 Users <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:       5/12/2003 8:15 PM



For the techies,  a lot of technical changes, here a just a few:
-250 library list support
-New library naming standards
-Consolidation of financial data libraries into one library
-Conversion of all RPG programs to RPGILE
-New security profiles for object ownership - no more QPGRM
-Introduction of ILE modules
-Task exclusivity testing within environments

Dave Barry
Dawn Food Products



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