RE: Alternate to iSeries

Chris:

I'd say that the data queue work _could_ be the big hurdle. That has nothing to 
do with ILE RPG; it's an OS/400 thing. (Not clear how best to implement a 
generic non-OS/400 replacement.)

But outside of that, why not VisualAge for RPG? Given that it can create Java, 
how does that fit in with the "server want-a-bee's" deal? Is it necessary to 
generate the programs on the same system they'll be run on? Generate on a PC 
and run on AIX.

AFAIK, 'ILE RPG' just isn't anywhere but iSeries. RPG IV might be elsewhere, 
but I'm not clear how well that covers 'ILE RPG' in those cases. And some 
fundamental facilities don't really seem to translate well in environments such 
as AIX -- anybody seen an AIX subfile lately? Anybody tried recompiling an ILE 
RPG program that has significant pointer manipulation where the pointers are 
declared in data structures? Such features aren't exactly part of any HLL; 
they're again more OS/400 than RPG though VA-RPG has something of a replacement 
for subfiles, not sure at all about pointers in structures without coding 
changes.

If you are determined to go with "ILE RPG", can you list the non-RPG features 
that might be also needed? Data queues (or a suitable replacement; some kind of 
socket-proxy might be devised) was a very good example.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. RE: Alternate to iSeries (Chris Bipes)
>
>Thanks but I want to stay away from server want-a-bee's.  I was thinking
>along AIX on a pSeries and no Intel crap. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>There are other RPG platforms...I've written on most of them, but I
>don't know of one that supports RPG/IV and especially not ILE. You
>might try a PC platform, like ASNA or something. Maybe VisualAge RPG on
>an Intel server with DB2?

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