RE: RPG IV release levels and complexity

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM provides a target release for compiling. Why can't we have a setting in
PDM that is designed to match that option? 
 
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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 11/18/2003 1:58:50 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG IV release levels and complexity
 
> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
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> But the standard question, is how many people are buying new packages
for
> their iSeries when their version of release is two versions back?
 
This is a good point, Rob. What I'd like to see is a reasonable way to
integrate the two - existing legacy systems and new development. New
development can be developed exclusively using the new tools, while
legacy systems use a set of "legacy extension" tools. The LE tools
won't get the same bucks as the new tools, but there will still be
interoperability.
 
What I'd like to see from IBM is a roadmap for legacy interoperability.
Instead of this pie-in-the-sky "move to EJB" silliness, what I want is a
way to be able to use the newest RAD tools to add function and features
SEAMLESSLY to my existing back end systems.
 
Give me a tool do this, and it's the next killer app.
 
Joe