Re: Panic is setting in... I am seeing RPG36 and OCL36... and I needto modernize it!

Once you establish some patterns for fixing this, it's not so bad.
Screens will be different than non screen. Things like v-line screens
take a while & redesign may be a great option.
You are not forced to go to external dds, but it makes the pgm
so much more maintainable.
Batch and interactive non screens are not so bad, unless you have
matching record logic with 6 lines of indicators....

I personally think it's better to get all code into a "maintainable" format
as quick and orderly as possible. You don't want to find yourself
having to do a high profile emergency change on Dec 31 with
code you don't fully understand.
Jim Franz


----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: Panic is setting in... I am seeing RPG36 and OCL36... and I needto modernize it!

Is there documentation or a good article somewhere on what some of these
"strange" things are in the S36 programs and the likely equivalent.

One example is an E-Spec. It appears to be some sort of array or table.
Perhaps for a subfile? Also these F-specs:

0011 FWK CP F 756 WORKSTN
0012 F KFMTS CTDS04FM
0013 F KINFDS DSINF
0014 F KINFSR SUBINF

I would hate to bombard this list with a ton of questions if there is a
resource I could go to first.

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Mike Wills
Midrange Programmer/Analyst
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was told it existed in school but was lead to believe it no longer
existed. I am now looking at some old RPG36 and OCL36 code and need to
"modernize it". Is there a tool to help convert it to RPG or RPGLE code
similar to CVTRPGSRC?

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Mike Wills
Midrange Programmer/Analyst
http://whois.mikewills.name/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewills

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