Re: Editing Files

>  We have just recently migrated from a S/36 to AS/400 

We converted in 1998 from S/36 to AS/400 & we used some packaged tools to 
convert our internally described code to externally described DDS.

As I recall, we paid like $1600.00 for Pro Gen ... I can check the office to 
get the exact product name ... if did an intelligent search of our OCL to 
identify which RPG accessed which file names, then from there we were able to 
cut & paste internal definition source lines into its dictionary of file 
layouts, then when we were happy with the definition editing .... we had to 
fill in the blank spots & resolve redefinition where 400 does not support 
everything we were doing on 36 ... the thing generated DDS for us & also we 
had the option to generate code to copy the 36 data into the new 400 
externally described files, appropriately populated in the right fields & 
with all the decimal data errors erradicated - it was easy to modify to 
eliminate records coded for deletion while we were at it.

I understand that there are several packages on the market that do similar 
services.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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