Re: IBM pushing Java

[therrin@xxxxxxxxx (Terry Herrin)]

John Carr <74711.77@compuserve.com> wrote:
>If you're not using the new functions of the RPGIV language(built-in's 
>using API's,  Procedures, etc) and are still only using RPGIII
>I for the life of me don't know why.   If you're an RPG person

I can tell you why I'm not.  We're an RPGIII shop.  All of our
applications are RPGIII.  None of the vendors have introduced RPGIV
into any of the applications we are currently supporting.  Our
management will not approve the use of RPGIV until they need to, and
at that time all of the RPG programmers will be trained in RPGIV.  I
cannot just start using RPGIV when no other programmers here have
learned it, as it would raise maintenance concerns should someone else
need to go into the program to change or fix it later.  Now with Y2K
testing and the recent purchase of another hospital we'll need to
bring onto our systems, I doubt we'll be trying to tackle RPGIV this
year.  Believe me, I'd love to learn and use it if I could.

Terry Herrin
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
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