Re: where to start?

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:57 PM 5/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
>A company is upgrading from Advanced/36 to AS/400. They have files with
>multiple record types and want to reuse as much code as possible (with
>the necessary changes for the AS/400). Right now the plan is to use
>external data structures to define the fields (for the new code) and
>create logicals to define the fields for use with Query. However, some
>of the fields are packed. What have others done in the past to handle a
>similar situation? Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>Direct replies are OK to dkbrengle@juno.com. 

There are two good alternatives.

First of all, do nothing and run in the *M36 mode.  It ain't fancy, but it
works,  without recompilation.

I have also used a package called TARGET/400, which takes S/36 code and
makes it native.  It handles multiple record formats well, although this
can be a lot of work.  If you want more info about this package, please call.

Al



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