Re: Help required to stop this company replacing their iSeries

On 6/30/06, Michael Jacobsen <MJacobsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's not entirely true.  I see no reason why you can't hire a capable
graduate to learn RPG in a small shop.

When I graduated college 2 years ago, I got a job as a RPG programmer.
Never even heard or seen RPG before and the closest I've came would have
been a course on logic using COBOL.

Sat through hours of ATS training tapes learning RPG III and database
administration then learned RPG IV primarily on my own and from looking at
code we already have.  We are a shop of 3 programmers.

the problem with the RPG approach is the green screen that goes with
it.  The fact that the green screen RPG apps never fail is great. The
problem is that the presentation and access to the data is 2nd rate.

You can make a great case for an i5 application written in SQL stored
procedures.  PC client apps that call sql stored procedures, getting
result sets back in return work fairly well.  RPG can be used as the
language of the stored procedure if you want.  What is needed is a lot
of CPU to push the data and man the interfaces. The p5 has that CPU.

-Steve