Re: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

[Paul Tuohy <tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

All of your points are valid (and you have my sympathy having to work with this
code), but they apply when converting RPG II to RPG III.

I think the real point here is in going from RPG III to RPG IV. I know, there is
still a lot of 36 code out there, but there is an awful lot more 38/400 code 
which
is ripe for conversion to RPG IV.

I go with Bucks learning curve, I just think we have to be honest and add 10 
minutes
for the new format of the F Spec and the D Spec ;-)

By the way, wasn't there an RPG II to RPG III conversion tool out there at one
stage?

Paul

Jim Langston wrote:

> Well, take for instance the program I am converting to RPG IV from
> RPG II.  My boss wanted me to modify a program to do some selection
> on a report.  The current report goes through the entire file looking for
> data that meets certain criteria and once finding it in the primary chains
> to a bunch of other files and grabs data, then prints it.
>
> <snip>
>
> Time involved converting RPG II to RPG IV 5+
>
> Now, if I was writing this from scratch, it would be much, much faster to
> write it in RPGIV then RPGII, but legacy exists.
>
> There is good and bad in this though.  My new program is going to be
> ILE, or RPG IV anyway, I'm not going to link anything to it.  The original
> program I copied this from, however, is still RPGII.  Argh!
>

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