RE: RPGII to RPG IV

["Raby, Steve \(GE Advanced Materials, consultant\)" <steve.raby@xxxxxx>]

Be very careful here in what you want to end up with. The system I work on is a 
total dogs breakfast of RPGII, RPGIII, and RPGIV. The company converted to 
AS400 about 5-6 years ago from S36, however some bright spark decided that they 
would not convert everything to RPG400
because they had so much experience in RPGII (even then I am doubtful about 
that statement) and so we spend most of the processing time converting from 
flat files to externally described files and back again. Needless to say these 
*&*(^(^&^% conversion programs are the bane of my life!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Cozzi
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:46 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RPGII to RPG IV


Has anyone moved an old RPGII program to RPGIII and then RPGIV in recent
months?
I'm specifically wondering about approaches to move the program-described
database files to externally describd.
Most of that is obvious, but what about multi-format files? Do people simply
do a rewrite of the app in that situation or is there some simpler method to
handle them?
 
-Bob
 
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