RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L.
(TC)
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:19 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

>To convert from numeric to character I use %Char().  To go the other way I
>use a sub proc called #CtoN() which seems to be used by many so I am
>guessing it is open source.  My shop just got up to V5R1 about a month ago
>so I haven't investigated going from character to numeric, but I am all
>ears. . .

Where I work we did not start using /free until the upgrade 6 mths ago to
v5r1.  So maybe the slow adoption rate is the fault of the current IBM
iSeries management.  If RPG is ptf upgradable, no matter the OS400 release
level, then all RPG programmers can be on the same page, sharing with each
other the knowledge of the new features that will benefit them.  And IBM
makes more $$$ because more productive RPG programmers means more programs
which need more computer resources.

Steve