Re: MACPAC

And you really think that after
- rewriting (rewriting!) a WSU-program in RPGII
- converting it with an ASNA tool (nothing against ASNA! I loved their RPG
II(I) 1/2 on the S/36!)
the programs will still have their "nuances"?

<IMHO (in my humble opinion)>
Of course, $$$ makes the rules, but I'd let this one sit on his $$$, as
money shouldn't be the reason to do everything that a sick (but wealthy)
brain can think of. Give the hardware the software it deserves, and the
AS/400 doesn't deserve this. These people are in desperate need of a good IT
manager, but nobody knows it (yet). And what i've learned hanging around is
that facts like that aren't easy to tell and nobody wants to hear them
(except they spend big $$$ for another company telling them the same :-).
</IMHO>

0.02 Euro

Anton Gombkötö

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Von: "Raul Jager" <raul@abc.com.py>
An: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Gesendet: Freitag, 14. April 2000 15:17
Betreff: Re: MACPAC


> A very good reason to want the application unmodified is that it fills
> the needs very well,  BUT, a newly designed application, if well donne
> will be much better.  It takes a long time to emulate all the nuances of
> a program, and you may end up with a barely acceptable imitation of the
> old one.
>
> The person who will pay for the job has the right to decide, but I feel
> it will be an honest move to sujest the redesign, even if that will give
> you less hours.
>
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__
> Kmh0421@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello to all. I have a 'unique' opportunity. I have a prospective client
that
> > wants me to rewrite WSU MACPAC programs into RPGII/III - then they want
to
> > use the Accelerator conversion programs to convert these programs from
that
> > into 400 code. They have an 'Advanced System 400' as they put it, where
it is
> > One AS/400, with Two boxes inside where they must DDM files between
them. I
> > am still unclear about the whole story, but they do not want me to just
write
> > AS/400 native code, they say it must go through this conversion process
or it
> > won't work (I am still foggy on it).... I was wondering if anyone could
> > explain to me the part that I must be missing as to why I can't just
write in
> > current code? Why they say I must rewrite the MACPAC WSU stuff first
into
>
> --
>   Raul A. Jager W.
> Asuncion - Paraguay
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