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On 11/03/2006, at 1:27 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
I think Simon meant RPG III.
Actually I did mean RPG II but in light of your comments I dug out my old SAA RPG Reference Summary (SC09-1164-02) from April 1991 which applies to V2R1 of IBM SAA RPG/400 and V1 of IBM SAA RPG/390.
Seems it's not as bad as I thought. At least it supports the new RPG/400 op-codes for character data. It has no support for externally described files nor for work station files. I have no idea how they do screen I/O using RPG on the mainframe. No support for composite keys either.
For what it's worth here is a list of the features that are NOT supported in SAA RPG/390:
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o Various File and Program Error Codes
o F-spec:
- WORKSTN files
- Record number for SFILE
o F-spec continuation:
- COMIT
- ID
- IGNORE
- IND
- NUM
- PASS
- RENAME
- SAVDS
- SFILE
- SLN
o I-specs:
- U1 to U8
- External data structures
o C-specs:
- KA to KN, KP to KY
- U1 to U8
- Numeric fields still limited to 15 digits
- Op-code extender N (no lock)
- Format names
o O-specs:
- KA to KN, KP to KY
- U1 to U8
- Edit code 5 to 9
- K1 to K8
- Format names
o Op-Codes:
- ACQ
- CLEAR *NOKEY
- COMIT
- DSPLY
- EXFMT
- FREE
- KFLD
- KLIST
- NEXT
- POST
- READC
- REL
- ROLBK
- SHTDN
SAA RPG/390 did get support for Graphic data types though and a few
mainframe-specific file and program error codes.
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