Re: IBM getting rid of RPG

[John Rockwell <midson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it's the drill down piece that adds the complexity.

Joe Pluta wrote:

> Why would this be so difficult?  By using a fixed font and changing the
> background color, you can emulate a 5250-style screen.  In my 5250-emulation
> mode, I support all combinations of colors and display attributes through
> the use of cascaded style sheets.  Indicators passed from the program
> determine the display attributes of the field, just like a 5250 display.
>
> It wouldn't be particularly pretty, but it would do the trick.  Drill down
> capabilities would be a little more difficult, but not impossible.  In fact,
> you could use a mouse click, either through an AREA MAP or through
> individual <A> tags on each of the bar fields.
>
> Yes, it would be a bit of work, but it would be far from impossible.  And
> once you've done the infrastructure, it then applies to all your programs.
>
> Joe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of John Rockwell
> > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 6:51 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: IBM getting rid of RPG
> >
> >
> > One of the problems where this penalty comes into play involves a
> > large number of
> > programs built to provide us with an Executive Information
> > System.  It would take
> > a significant amount of time to rewrite those programs just to
> > get back to where
> > we were when we started from a presentation point of view, time
> > that management
> > may not feel too pleased about providing us with.  This system is written
> > entirely in RPG and displays various business trends in
> > offsetting colored bar
> > graphs.  Its used to encourage peer-to-peer management (competition) among
> > multiple plants instead of making the plant managers respond to seemingly
> > arbitary directives handed down from above (it gets rid of the
> > 'you don't live
> > in the real world' arguments because they're competing against
> > people who live in
> > the same world that they do).  There's also a drill-down function
> > built into the
> > bars on all of the graphs so people can see where the numbers came from.
> > Re-writing code for file maintenance programs will be considerably easier.
>
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