Re: ILE RPG/COBOL

[Dave Shaw <dshaw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Ed Tate <etate01@sun.hazelwood.k12.mo.us>


>I have a programmer working on Y2K issues and is concerned that we need to
>be changing these programs to ILE also.  We use both RPG and COBOL
>
>Is this a valid concern or is this just adding another project on top of an
>existing one?  When is IBM dropping support on non-ile compilers?

Probably a few years after they drop support for the S/36 and S/38
environments.  Personally, I think that that's far enough off that I'll be
able to retire first (I'm 42 and poor ;).  There are lots of good reasons to
switch to ILE, but fears over IBM ending support for the OPM RPG and COBOL
compilers in the near future are not among them, IMHO.

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Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...



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