RE: Is RPG available on any other platform ?

["Reeve Fritchman" <Reeve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Disclaimer: I'm not a VARPG guy.

It's my understanding that VARPG is not updated concurrent with ILE RPG; if
true, this indicates a disconnect between VARPG and green-screen RPG.  If
VARPG is one of the waves of the future (pick your own Next Hot Technology:
Java, Eclipse, VARPG, OS/400, OS/2, SAA, System/7), one would think IBM
would encourage its use by keeping it up-to-date.  Of course, that's a
customer's perspective.

I'm at V5R1.

Your "The learning curve for new employees on many green screen
applications..." observation is interesting.  Do you think many green screen
applications are poorly designed or do you think any GUI supports the user
better?  My applications have context-sensitive help,
click-on-the-column-heading for subfile sorting, lookup capabilities on
edited fields (indicated like this: "Terms?:"), and error message subfiles
with substitution variables.  Sheesh...what else can I do?

-reeve
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One release behind??  That means you can do most everything right now except
Freeform C-specs.   Just out of curiosity, how current is your iSeries?
Most shops I see are running almost a release behind anyway.

Aaron, what RPG limitation are you thinking about when you write "so please
correct me if you are not held to any of RPG's limitations,..."?

I see very few places making changes for appearance alone.  The most common
reason I see is management's desire for good GUI design for user training.
The learning curve for new employees on many green screen applictions is
just too frustrating today.



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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, December 30, 2002 19:37:02
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Is RPG available on any other platform ?

"...Sure, we have
VARPG...but what release level is it at? VARPG has (in the past) lagged
green-screen RPG by at least one release; I don't know how close it is to
V5R1 today.

Just give me my externally-defined HTML and I'll be happy...

-reeve


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:24 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Is RPG available on any other platform ?

...
**note** I am not a VB programmer, nor am I a ASNA's Visual RPG programmer
so please correct me if you are not held to any of RPG's limitations, but I
am guessing you are because of the fact that RPG is in the name.

... .

One thing that I have found to be interesting is that some people's reason
for going GUI isn't for additional functionality but instead for looks.
YIKES!!

Aaron Bartell
Mankato, MN
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