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  3. February 2006

Re: Fortran question

IBM had a Fortran Compiler for the S/38and early AS/400. I had a contract where there was a huge FORTRAN program provided by the American Petroleum Institute used for correcting measures for temperature and gravity, for asphalts and gasoline. (I think it was refered to as Table 6B or 7B conversion) Anyway, another contracter spent a month full time, trying to convert to RPG. Problem was in precision of numbers, and he never got it to work right.
I got handed the task. I keyed in the source code SEU. Saved it to tape, and visited my local IBM Branch. (Yeah, we had real IBM'ers in their own building back then). Loaded it on their system with the FORTRAN compiler. Compiled it, saved it off, and restored it to the customers systwm. Worked like a champ. And the OS converted it when we changed releases, when necessary. It was there till I left, and I heard it continued to run until the system was retired years later. 



Trevor Perry wrote:
I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small AS/400 that was a S/36. They have one application written in FORTRAN which they would like to migrate to their iSeries.
Any ideas? Anyone done this before??

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