Re: Future of RPG

["Lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx" <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You did not say what release you are on, so this reply is valid only if 
you are on V6R1.

It sounds like what you are asking for is Rational Open Access: RPG 
Edition and a handler like the one from Profound Logic. 
(http://www.profoundlogic.com/prodproui.rpgsp).

Note that I have no connection to Profound Logic, but I do hope to talk 
the boss into testing it in the 2011 budget.

Sam

[If you are prior to V6R1, you might look at Profound Logic's RPGsp (RPG 
Smart Pages), an earlier version of their product.

And BCD has their WebSmart product.
http://www.bcdsoftware.com/iseries400solutions/websmart/]

On 7/28/2010 2:31 PM, THarteau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>          I would love to learn and do new things!  We have an ERP package
> that is written in RPG400, some old home grown programs in RPG III and
> anything new is in RPG 4 with a little bit of ILE.  New requests are
> wanted tomorrow and maintenance to existing programs need to be fixed
> yesterday.  We have 2 programmers, counting myself. Not a lot of time for
> figuring out new stuff when the old stuff is faster.
>          Take this as an example, we just finished a maintenance program
> using green screen.  The user really wanted a PC like screen with drop
> down boxes and radio buttons.  Almost every entered field was validated
> against a DB2 file before updating several different master files.