RE: Moving to RPGIV

["Haas, Matt" <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

The good news is that RPG IV can be written very much like RPGIII/400 which 
makes the transition pretty easy to get underway. A simple way to get started 
is to take a program you understand and run it through CVTRPGSRC. This command 
will not take advantage of any of the nice things available in RPG IV (there 
are third party tools that will do this) but it does give you a decent starting 
place.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Helgren [mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:35 AM
To: RPG Midrange Discussion
Subject: Moving to RPGIV


OK, OK, Uncle!!!!

I have to start moving to RPG IV from my "comfortable" RPG III.  I already
do quite a bit of work in Java and have done stuff in C++ so, how hard can
this be, right?  What I'd like to is find out how best to make the jump in
the quickest, most painless way.  Most of the programming examples posted
are in RPG IV so I REALLY need to move.

I am not a "classically trained" programmer, so an approach or reference
that is short on theory and long on practical examples is what I am after.
If you had to choose one, and at most, two resources, which would you
choose?

Thanks.   Looking forward to RPG IV !

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software,Inc.
801.581.1154 x202