RE: Using % type functions/using RPG IV

[Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxx]

  >> An exception to this would be MAPICS.

Many of the big and medium size vendors are switching their new versions to RPG
IV - although if they are all like the one that Susan saw last week at a
client's site it may not be such a good idea!  (Can you remember the early
"Native" apps on AS/400 <g>)

The exceptions are those like JDE who have switched to a different paradigm
(sorry couldn't think of another word).  Even these are reconsidering since many
of their users have demonstrated that they have no intention of switching to the
new versions.

As has also been pointed out here it is perfectly possible to do a straight
CVTRPGSRC on the vendor software and do your in-house mods on that.  If fixes
etc. come in, you convert them too before comparing and re-integrating.  In some
cases the vendor has announced that there will be no new releases of the
existing product.  When this happened I'd be headed for my RPG IV conversion
tools faster than ........


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