Re: OS version for RDI

Here is a link to an RPG II to RPG III converter...it also does OCL to CL
conversion. http://www.linomasoftware.com/products/prostart

Thanks,
Tommy Holden



From:
"Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>
To:
Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
04/07/2008 01:03 PM
Subject:
Re: [WDSCI-L] OS version for RDI



Vern and Joe:

Thanks for the kind words. ;-)

Jerry:

Jerry Adams wrote:
Works fine if the OPM ("heritage") compiler you're talking about is
RPG/400 (III). I had about a dozen RPG/400 programs left over from a
contractor that preceded me here; took about five minutes to convert
(moving to /free was a bit harder because of the MOVE's). Not so
straightforward with RPG36 (II).

Point duly noted. Customers with really old legacy code (e.g. RPGII)
should probably invest in a tool to convert those programs to "native"
RPG/400 or RPG IV, or manually rewrite them, or just pony up the extra
$$$ to IBM to continue to license the OPM compilers.

Also, there are some important differences between the way that CL and
CLLE function. These have been discussed before so I'm sure one could
find them in the archives. I know that the OVRDBF command bit me a time

or two, but that was because of my lack of understanding at the time of
activation groups.

I did not suggest that a customer would need to convert all CLP *PGMs to
CLLE right away. IBM has never charged extra for the CL compilers
(CRTCLPGM, CRTBNDCL and CRTCLMOD commands). Since "CL" is the command
language of i5/OS and OS/400, the CL compilers were included with the
"base" OS license, and so I expect this would not change. Note also
that CRTBNDCL has a default of ACTGRP(*DFTACTGRP), aka. "OPM
compatibility mode."