Re: Fortran question

[Bob <bob_larkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?? 
>
>