RE: Converting RPG to RPGLE

We only have 6 RPG programmers on staff. The RPG source file is locked 
down. Only a few people have access to it. The RPGLE source member has all 
the code. If you want to debug a program, you recompile it. Even when the 
code was still RPGIII, that was the way it was done here. Most of the 
programs that are still RPGIII were compiled out of source libraries from 
programmers who are no longer here, *SOURCE will never find the original 
code to let debug work. This conversion was done a few years back, I was 
still writing RPGIII programs in RPGIV syntax, but It was a start at the 
time. 

One of the other divisions only converted code as it was worked on. That 
was a mess in my opinion. When I needed to look for source, I had to be 
sure to get it from the right file. What if it was converted and the old 
version was left in the file? My way left no doubts if you worked on code 
for my group it came from the ILE file. Being a small shop Also helps Of 
the 6 of us 1 is our director, still codes occasionally. 3 are EDI 
support, and have there own source files, though now do some work with my 
code to help out. 1 other programmer and I won't write anything not in 
RPGIV, and most of the time program for 2 different divisions. That have 
there own source libraries.

Being a publicly traded company and dealing with US Sarbanes-Oxley 
requirements, the checkout and changing of programs are very well 
documented. We were before the law came down, Now we just have more 
paperwork to prove to the auditors that we are following it properly. 





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I have to agree with that. Is this well documented? What if someone (a 
contractor) comes along and doesn't know about this, and isn't told, and 
starts looking around for source that may match the actual object? You 
could get into loads of problems just on that score. Doing it this way 
will take very rigid control, and that too may lead to problems if it is 
relaxed at any point, which in my experience is more probable than not. 

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Shannon O'Donnell
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Onderwerp: RE: Converting RPG to RPGLE



This seems like a really bad idea to me (changing the source but not
recompiling it). What happens if you have to debug a program that you
have converted the source for but have not recompiled? The compiled
object, if you didn't compile it with the DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) will need to
be recompiled so you can run it under debug and now the new object no
longer matches the old object and you won't know if the errors you are
getting now match the old errors or if it's something new. 



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