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  • Subject: Re: Survey Numbers
  • From: Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:51:39 -0800
  • Organization: Conex Global Logistics Services, Inc.

That is true.  When I first tried to do a conversion to RPG IV
from RPG III manually I thought it was a real pain.  But, with
some spacing changes and fewer indicators, RPG III will basically
compile and work as long as you get the syntax right.

The good point is that you can then write code in RPG III using
RPG IV until you learn all the new features.  When I first did
conversions, and even new programs I wrote, I was still using
MOVE, IFEQ, IFGE, COMP and such.  I slowly learned the
new syntax of Eval and If and those have made my code so
much easier to write and maintain.

I still don't think I'm programming 100% RPG IV/ILE yet though,
as I've yet to look at activation groups, not have I built a library
of calls for linking. But it's coming.  Sooner or later.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Randy Mangham wrote:

> <BIG SNIP> Even w/o
> using ILE techniques a programmer can be more productive in RPG IV.

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