RE: Help us migrate to ILE RPG

For now forget about ILE just go to RPGIV.  It will open up a whole bunch of new RPG operation codes and built in function that will make coding easier.  The biggest advantage is longer variable / field names.  Just use the IBM supplied CVTRPGSRC to move from RPGIII, (RPG400), to RPGIV.  It works!  It also makes your programs run faster, without you changing a line of code.  There are third party packages that update the syntax to take advantage of the new stuff.  We used Linoma which did a good job for us.  Check out www.linomasoftware.com

Once you are comfortable with the new syntax, you will be working even faster and now ready to move to ILE.

Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive   Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928  Fax: 707 586-1884

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Magnuson [mailto:magnuson@knapheide.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:34 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.