RE: RPG/COBOL/C

My client is also falling into "Mainframe Transition" Shop category.
For them they don't want to re-train the resource and also don't want to
invest much. I think best solution for them is to stick to cobol and
transit the application to COBOL/400, probably ILE environment ( I guess
I need to convince for ILE environment).

Thanks you everyone for join this discussion. Your inputs are very much
valuable as always.

Also this might not be a right place to discuss about COBOL discussion,
but being a RPG centric developer, I had to post here.


Thanks a lot.

- Arul

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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:34 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: RPG/COBOL/C

Wow. Sounds like I hit all your points:
- Availability of RPGLE vs COBOL programmers.
- Ease of transition in migrating people from mainframe.

Someone else brought up another point. If the availability of other
packages, to go along with your package, require that the staff learn
RPGLE anyway, then that is a consideration.

But one person had one of the strongest posts: They know of a
company(ies) that picked a package primarily because it was written in
COBOL and they were targeting the mainframe transition shops. Hard to
argue with that. Unless you know of a company that wants to turn over
their COBOL staff for any number of reasons (new paradigms, less
resistance to the new implementation, newbies get paid less...).

Rob Berendt