RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I'm converting a small company to RPG IV from RPGII S36E as we speak--it
feels like Y2K to me all over again. <g>

It is difficult and many of the tools out there are not very good for moving
RPGII/OCL to RPGIV/CL, but it can be done.
If you company does not need any new enhancements in its software (or
limited enhancements) then simply wanting to move to RPG IV probably is not
a compelling enough reason to do migrate.
If they do need enhancements, then, like all upgrades, you pay a little more
up front but make it up on the back end as you do cool new things that you
couldn't do before.

-Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Anderson [mailto:banderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: RPGIII to get a facelift?
> 
> 
> Charles,
>       CVTRPGSRC is fine for RPG III but what about us that still have a
lot 
> of System 36 RPG still running. We are a 1 man shop here and I would 
> gladly move it all to RPG IV if I had a Good/Free way of doing it.
> The bucks just
> don't exist to pay for it 1. because it still works great and
> 2 I can't even
> get them to spring for the SQL Devol kit that I would love to have in 
> addition to some of Bob's tools
> 
> 
> Bob Anderson