Welcome to new users and a question.

[Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>]

Welcome to all the new members of the list.

I have a question for all. How did you come to use COBOL on the AS/400?

In my case, we were developing a new application on a new System/38 and
got to chose the language. Out of 70 programmers, I was the only one
with RPG, and it was not on the IBM midrange. We asked around, and
"everyone" said that RPG was the "native" language, ran faster, was
better supported.

Being the doubter I am, we ran tests, comparing COBOL to RPG. To our
surprise, COBOL executed just as quickly as RPG on the whole. Each
language had an area where it was faster, but overall, they were very
similar in speed. We then got some mainframe COBOL user's involved.
After a little introduction to the System/38, and the way I/O was
handled, they took to it like a duck in water.

We decided to go with COBOL. As development progressed, we were always
pushing the envelope. IBM would have a new feature, we would probably
use it. We ended up finding a few bugs, but IBM was always quick to
correct them. In fact, we often got to deal directly with members of the
COBOL development team. (This was in the mid 80's).

That's my story, what's yours?
Bob



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