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That's what I especially like about being a one-man shop: There was absolutely no argument, discussion, politics, or whatever about ditching the RPG III programs (converting to IV) and writing all new stuff in IV. The excuses that I hear for not programming in IV are as lame as excuses get.


I "attended" a webcast yesterday by Susan Gantner on /free format. One of Susan's arguments for using /free was that it looks more like "modern" languages like Java and C, which the few kids coming out of college IT courses are used to. Besides not being able to code /free III code, a similar argument applies here: Managers are holding back (deliberately?) their programming staff and, just as bad, harming their companies because they can't/don't take advantage of better methods and available technology.

But I try to keep an open mind. I'd certainly be willing to hear of any reasonable excuse for sticking with III. And "It's company policy or mandate" doesn't cut it.


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Joep Beckeringh wrote:
Douglas,

 > ... that I am not permitted
 > to convert to ILE.

There's your problem. So tell the one responsible: "Give me a day and I'll write my own conversion routine in RPG (and make sure you test it carefully, because I never wrote such a routine before). Or give me ten minutes; five to convert to RPG IV and another five to use the well tested functions %INT en %TRIM to convert it."

Joep Beckeringh



Douglas Palme wrote:
I am in the process of modifying an RPG III program that I am not permitted
to convert to ILE.

One of the fields is a 10 character field that only contains numeric numbers
and will never have more than seven digits..I know I could change the field
length to 7 but I was told no to that as well as it might blow up other
programs.

Here is the delimna, I need to move the value to a 7 digit numeric.  It is
possible that it can have anywhere from 1 to seven digits.

Example:

'116769    ' - Charcter value

I have a new field defined as 7,0

When I do a move on it it shows up as 1167690 and a movel gives me 7690000.

Suggestions? Hints?  Converting it is not an option.

Douglas



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