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On 3/11/06, Tom Huff <tehuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey, Whats wrong with CCP pgms ? They actually work very similar to CGI
> pgms. I could probably drag some old pgms off of tape and reuse them.
> Smile
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mark Allen
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:39 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: RPG on OS/390
>
> "I have no idea how they do screen I/O using RPG on the mainframe."
>
> Made me think back (shudder!! chills up the spine!!) to the old System 3
> days and CCP. What fun add a new interactive program and then have to
> re-generate the assignment set(?) so when you restarted the interactive
> partition (see the i5 ain't got nuttin, I remember multiple partitions on
> the System/3) it could use the "new" program................
>
> great, now i get to go abck to the therapist
>
> On 3/10/06, Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >         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.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon Coulter.
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> >
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