Re: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform

If you want to motivate new developers to work with RPG, you have to get rid of SEU and old fixed format RPG. Convert programs, whenever it makes sense, to RPG IV using sub-procedures and service programs. Who in their right mind really wants to work with a language that hasn't been touched since the mid nineties? Yet there is a lot of that old RPG III code out there, and too many developers, and managers, unwilling to move away from it. Similar comments concerning SEU. Dump it! It doesn't even support modern RPG (since v6.1) properly. You might as well be using Notepad. RDi is far and away the best tool for development of RPG these days, and since it is Eclipse, you can also use the same IDE to develop Java or PHP or whatever else you can find a plugin for.

Mark Murphy
Atlas Data Systems
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Mohammad Tanveer <surgum@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 01/11/2017 05:39PM
Subject: Re: Road Map to move a home grown application from RPG to DB2 SQL or to any other data base platform


Thanks for your information. I will consider all of it.

My idea is to migrate RPG into SQL/CLI procedures on System i First; in
such a way that it is easily portable to another platform like db2 on
windows or SQL Server or Oracle. We have a home grown application
developed over 30 years of hard work..its becoming impossible to find new
generation and motivate them to work on RPG regardless of which flavor it
is.. New generation is coming out of school using SQL and its easy for
them to pick up SQL and support the application.

Re-writing 30 year old RPG code into java is an option too but I think it
will not be as efficient... it might even require a lot of software
engineering and might become difficult to support..







On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you looked a lot at the tools from www.databorough.com?

A lot has been published about x-Analysis, and I've read quite a bit, if
not most of it. I've engaged in several discussions with Stuart Milligan
about it. I think that a good case can be made for it for documentation and
analysis. However, add-ons which facilitate migrations of RPG to Java come
apart before going very far down that road.

One might ask about Profound's new tooling to migrate green screen programs
to Node.js? Yes, what about that?
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