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On Thu, 21 February 2002, "Joe Pluta" wrote: > It's not so much the RPG as the operating system support. Two simple > examples that caused us no end of grief are OVRDBF and MONMSG. Aye, there's the rub. While converting most of an RPG program to COBOL wouldn't be out of reach due to the common usage of RPG columnar formats, the supporting stuff from OS/400, etc., would be killer. And I wouldn't even try to imagine converting any serious ILE CL modules. Even for the basic RPG==>COBOL, support for external file descriptions would be a challenge to say the least. I'm not familiar with Linux offerings for externally-described printer files for example. Far too often, the focus is on what's inside the RPG envelope; but an AS/400 or iSeries is primarily defined by what's supplied outside of RPG (or COBOL). Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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