Re: RPG III to RPG IV

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis Robitaille wrote:
>Your question will probably received many answer. In our case,
>the most noticable differance was in the time to load the
>programs in memory. It is slower with RPGIV. I think that it
>is because the objects are larger. The source file needs to be
>larger for RPGIV (112 instead of 92 i think). But over all, we
>are very happy to have switch to RPGIV. I would do it again,
>no hesitation.

Well, I don't mean to nitpick but, ILE RPG will
compile standard source files with RCDLEN(92).
The recommendation for RCDLEN(112) is mainly for
programs converted from RPG III to handle the
possibility of end-of-line comments.  In RPG IV,
those "assembler-style" comments are put after
position 80.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
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