Re: Native Conversion to AS/400

[Richard Baird <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,

It's been a while since I evaluated any of these packages.

I guess I shouldn't have been so confident in my "none of them
externalize your input specs" comments.

A couple of years ago we developed a little utility that would show
you each internal description of a program, let you enter a PF name
and library and would replace each field of the file that matched the
external file desc with a renamed external field - but if it didn't
match, it just marked it for later attention.

Didn't get around to output specs though.  that was a little tougher
because the field being output to a file many times had no relation to
the file whatsoever.

Some of the most fun I've had in this industry (and by the industry I
do mean the bizness :) is writing utilities.  If I only had more time
to do more of that stuff.

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Rick,
> 
> In a message dated 98-08-26 17:07:34 EDT, you write:
> 
> > Be very careful.
> >
> >  I've only been exposed to a couple of 36 to native conversion
> >  utilities, and none of them can externalize your input specs.  If it
> >  doesn't externalize your data, it will NOT help you fix the Y2K
> >  problems.
> 
> I don't know about that.  I don't remember the contact information, but there
> was a company out of Canada called "Quantum" that would externalize your
> display and physical files for you (not without some work, but it was GREAT).
> They had a fire several years ago and lost much of their work, but they may
> still be around...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
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