Re: PC RPG compiler?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you.  ILE stands for Integrated Language
Environment.

On the AS/400, the only version of RPG IV that exists is also the version
of RPG that runs in the Integrated Language Environment.  Thus "ILE RPG".
And the reason you used the term "pseudo" in "pseudo OPM programs" is
because, although it can behave like an OPM program, it's never REALLY an
OPM program.  It's always ILE.   But thats on the AS/400, where ILE
exists.

The reason IBM's VARPG and ASNA's Visual RPG run "RPG IV" instead of
"ILE RPG" (which are NOT the same thing) is because there is no ILE
for the PC.   Or at least, I haven't seen one.

To say that VARPG is "ILE RPG" is not correct.  You are correct in
saying that "ILE RPG means RPG IV", but the opposite is not true,
RPG IV does *not* mean ILE RPG.  Why?  Because ILE implies that it runs
in the Integrated Language Environment, which doesn't exist (AFIAK) for
the PC.


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jon Paris wrote:

>  > "ILE RPG" would imply that it worked in the Integrated Language
> Environment.  Which is an AS/400-only thing.   A PC compiler would not
> be ILE RPG.
>
> I know IBM did their best to confuse us all by using the term ILE RPG, but
> this statement is not correct.  "ILE RPG" means RPG IV, and RPG IV programs
> can operate in ILE or as pseudo OPM programs.  The cross-works product,
> Asna's Visual RPG and IBM's VARPG are all PC based products that run
> variants of RPG IV (i.e. ILE RPG).
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400