RE: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM" -- RPG400-L

I have the same problem.  It was bran spanking new and a week later the
announcement for RISC can out.  We are using the CISC AS400 
9402-200/2030 for our Disaster Recovery site, mirroring transactions to it
and sending some live transactions to be processed.  I can, and has, handled
100% of our transactions.  But as we grow and develop more robust
applications, it is a pain to compile to V3R2 on the RISC box so as to not
use functions not available for that machine.  Sure would like to see all
rpg and CL functions ptf'd to V3R2.  Come on IBM development staff, don't
give in to your marketing department desire to force all the CISC to upgrade
to RISC when they don't need the performance gains. 



-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:infosys@klements.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 12:35 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: RPG IV and CF-spec "keep it IBM"


Dave...

      Amen on the V3R2 issue.   This is something I struggle with
every day.   V3R2 is the newest release that will run on a ton of
AS/400's.  Our company bought an Advanced Series AS/400, a brand new
black-box AS/400 before the RISC machines were out, at the end of 94.

Yet, by 96 (less than 1.5 years of use) I was told that the OS was
basically not upgradable.   I could no longer get any of the new
features and was stuck with it.

Now, I'm not looking for ALL of the new features of V4, but are the
changes to RPG so profound that they can't be done on a CISC machine?
(As IBM has already told me!)

Our machine isn't slow for what we use it for.   Its Y2K compliant,
it doesn't need to be upgraded.   It frustrates the heck out of me
that I need to replace my hardware just because people have
arbitrarily decided that V3R2 is "dead".

Scott Klement
Information Systems Manager
Klement's Sausage Co, Inc.




Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@fuse.net> wrote:
>
> What I really want is all those extra stuff on V4R4 ptf'ed all the w
>  back to
> V3R2.   I know,  I know V3R2 support stops in 2K and all of you have
>  repeatedly
> told me V3R2 is dead.   But people are not going to stop using V3R2
>  for a few
> more years.  IBM learned their lesson in SSP 5.1 and then belatedly
>  did the
> VASP.   This way developers can develop consistently instead of
>  worrying about
> version differences.
>
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