RE: RPG/400 Definition (was Using VARLEN DDS keyword) -- RPG400-L

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Lynette Chronister
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:30 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: RPG/400 Definition (was Using VARLEN DDS keyword)
>
>
> so i am mistaken when someone uses the term RPG/400 and i think
> that this is a higher level than RPGIII?... Lemme get this straight.
>
> RPGII
> RPGIII
> RPGIV  are the actual languages.
> then what does ILE or /400 stand for?
> when someone says they program RPG/ILE, what does that mean vs RPGIV?
>
> Lynette Chronister
>
> >>> Lisa.Abney@universalflavors.com 01/17/01 08:44AM >>>
>
>
> I agree!  I buy lots of RPG books, and just take for granted that
> any newly
> published books are going to be based on RPGIV and/or ILE.
> However, I was VERY
> disappointed to buy one last year (copyright date 1999) called
> Ready to Run
> RPG/400 Techniques, by Julian Monypenny and Roger Pence, and find all the
> wonderful examples done in RPGIII!  I've learned to be very
> cautious with books
> that include RPG/400 in the title.
>
> Bob Cozzi had an interesting explanation in the preface to his
> book The Modern
> RPGIV Language (Second Edition):
>
>    "There has been much confusion in the AS/400 world regarding
> the proper name
>    of the RPG programming language.  This is primarily due to
> many IBM support
>    personnel as well as the trade press mistakenly reporting the
> name of RPGIII
>    as RPG/400.  There is not now, nor has there ever been, a programming
>    language named "RPG/400."  The current AS/400 RPG compile
> package offered by
>    the IBM Corporation is named IBM AS/400 ILE RPG/400 Compiler.
> This package
>    contains several compilers for many different RPG languages, including:
>         System/36-compatible RPGII.
>         System/38-compatible RPGIII.
>         AS/400 RPGIII.  There is no "RPG/400" language per se
> (only AS/400 RPG
>         III).
>         AS/400 RPG IV.  This compiler targets the native
> integrated programming
>         language environment (ILE).  There is no "ILE RPG"
> language, only an
>         ILE-targeted RPGIV compiler."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jim Langston <jimlangston@conexfreight.com> on 01/16/2001 04:31:29 PM
>
> Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com
>
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> cc:    (bcc: Lisa Abney/Flavor-Indianapolis/NAFL/UFC)
>
> Subject:  Re: Using VARLEN DDS keyword
>
>
>
> This is what confuses me.
>
> He said RPG/400.  I have a book, "AS/400 ILE RPG/400 Programmer's Guide".
> Isn't RPG/400 just ILE RPG/400 without using any of the ILE stuff, which
> is RPG IV?
>
> Or does RPG/400 designate RPG III?  Or is it simpley that both RPG III and
> RPG IV were called RPG/400 and just the first version (RPG III) is called
> RPG/400, and the later versions are called ILE RPG or RPG IV?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Peter Dow wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Yeah, looks like we both missed the crucial part which was doing it in
> > RPG/400, not RPGLE. Oops<g>.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter Dow
> > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > 909 425-0194 voice
> > 909 425-0196 fax
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Langston" <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
> > To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: Using VARLEN DDS keyword
> >
> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > Actually, yeah, that is it in a nutshell.  I never right
> justify anything
> > > myself, so never use the EvalR command, so forgot about it.
> > >
> > > And, yeah, I meant move.  Again, I always used MOVEL.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jim Langston
> > >
> > > Peter Dow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Jim,
> > > >
> > > > I remember when you had to do this the hard way with arrays
> and stuff.
> > Would
> > > >
> > > >     C        EVALR    Char1 = %trim(Char1)
> > > >
> > > > do the same thing?  BTW, did you mean MOVE or is MOVER a new opcode?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Peter Dow
> > > > Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > > > 909 425-0194 voice
> > > > 909 425-0196 fax
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Jim Langston" <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
> > > > To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 1:12 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Using VARLEN DDS keyword
> > > >
> > > > > Off the top of my head:
> > > > >
> > > > > C           Eval   CharTemp = %Trim(Char1)
> > > > > C           Eval   Char1 = *Blanks
> > > > > C           MOVER  CharTemp     Char1
> > > > >
> > > > > Char1 = 'NAMEbbbb' to start with.
> > > > > CharTemp = 'NAME'
> > > > > Char1 = 'bbbbbbbb'
> > > > > Char1 = 'bbbbNAME'
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jim Langston
> > > > >
> > > > > Lynette Chronister wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > what is the easiest way to right justify a character variable.
> > > > > > example
> > > > > >
> > > > > > char1 = 'NAMEbbbbb' (b = blanks)
> > > > > >  i want 'bbbbbNAME'
> > > > > >
> > > > > > i can get this done, im just thinking there HAS to be
> an easier way.
> > > > > > TIA
> > > > > > oh, p.s. im writing in 400 not ILE.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Lynette Chronister
> > > > > > Programmer/Analyst
> > > > > > Elizabethtown, PA
> > > > > >
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