RE: HELP! RPG3 code. How do I convert?

Second that - we've had it for a year and a half - great utility. Many more
nifty features (besides conversion). 

Having said that, there are a few caveats with conversion you need to be
aware of. Make sure your program does not have and SCAN or CHECK opcodes
that return results into an array, because it won't convert those properly
to %SCAN and %CHECK (it actually will convert those to the BIFs, but that
won't give you the desired result, because the BIFs will only return the
result to the first element). I discovered this while testing a program I
had converted, and I told Linoma about my work-around.

If you choose to convert the *ENTRY PLIST to a PR/PI, you have to go and
take the definitions for the entry parameters put of the stand-alone fields,
or the program won't compile (because they will have been defined twice).

But these are little things - all in all, it's a great timesaver.

Francis Lapeyre (just a satisfied customer)
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
E-mail: flapeyre@xxxxxxxx 



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On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2006 7:32 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: HELP! RPG3 code. How do I convert?

As Jon eluded to I'll expound on - you should seriously test out the Linoma
package before making a conversion methods decision.

Don in DC

At 07:11 PM 3/2/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>  >> Without additional software, is there a way to convert from RPG3 
>to RPG4 code?
>
>CVTRPGSRC - it is on every system.  Doesn't do as good a job as the 
>Linoma software (which is really cheap) but if you just want a 
>primitive line-by-line conversion it will do the job.
>
>An equivalent tool is also built into the CODE editor that comes with 
>the WDSC package which you also own.
>
>
>
>Jon Paris
>Partner400
>
>www.Partner400.com
>www.RPGWorld.com
>
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