Re: OPEN in RPGIII

If you want a free toolset, Craig Rutledge's are quite good. He has tons of them, but for this context his JCR4MAX and JCR4PROTO and fine. The first takes the output of CVTRPGSRC and does some of what Linoma's tool can do. The second turns CALLs and CALLBs (I think) into prototypes and CALLPs - pretty cool - it even takes *ENTRY PLISTs and makes them into prototypes.

The source code comes with the stuff, and there are a couple things I would change if I had time - mostly control stuff put into positions 1-5. But I'm niggling now - they are a great help.

And did I say free?

Try this link - http://home.windstream.net/craigru/jcrcmd2.html

HTH
Vern

Joe Pluta wrote:

Charles Wilt wrote:

I have to second the recommendation of Linoma's tool.

It's not that expensive, it's just as safe as IBM's CVTRPGSRC but it
does a heck of a lot more. You won't have what I would call an ILE
RPG program, but you will have a full fledged RPG IV program.

Charles

That's a great statement, Charles. ILE implies RPG IV, but not vice versa. You can write perfectly acceptable RPG IV programs that don't use any ILE concepts at all. On the other hand, you can also write RPG IV programs that are little more than reformatted RPG III source, and that's what you get with CVTRPGSRC.

The Linoma tool gives a much better result and while not perfect it's a very good starting point.

Joe