RE: Help us migrate to ILE RPG

I'm doing a series on ILE is AS/400 (iSeries) Experts Journal right now.
Might be worth checking out.  www.the400group.com and click on publications.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Magnuson [mailto:magnuson@knapheide.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Help us migrate to ILE RPG
> 
> 
> We are a small shop (3 programmers, 1 manager).
> We need to convince management on cost benefits of
> migrating to ILE.  (time justification is what they
> want the most)
> 
> We have very limited knowledge currently of ILE concepts,
> and new enhancements in ILE RPG over RPG3 (RPG400 ((non-ILE
> RPG)..)
> but part of the migration plan is to get new standards in place
> and learn the concepts (We are making good progress on this.)
> 
> We have very old code we are maintaining and must not break.
> We are a 24-7 shop, and have a large project backlog.
> 
> ok, I have shown that we are not different than 80% of the
> other shops out there.
> 
> We need a good place to find a concise, accurate plan of
> time, and material we need to perform the migration to ILE.
> 
> We only want to take immediate advantage of a few ILE features
> right away. Long field names, max files (no, we cannot re-write
> those huge apps), change some programs to service programs that
> are called all over the place.
> 
> We think we need the following items to move ahead.
> 1) the concise answer the following question.
>       "What parts of RPG3 will NOT work in ILE RPG?"
> 2) programming standards, style standards for our shop
> 3) a tool to perform the conversion
> 4) a complete timeline-milestone chart of the conversion project.
> 5) a benefits list.
> 
> Can You please either e-mail me what information your shops used
> in this process, or direct me to the best places I can find to
> get this information.
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Gerald Magnuson
> Knapheide Manufacturing Company
> Quincy Il.
> 
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