Ask her to write in RPGIII a web based UI for her applications... You do yours in RPGIV with CGIDEV2... First one done wins!
If she doesn't like the WEB UI approach, then challenge her to something REALLY easy like writing data to a streamfile, or reading data directly out of a network shared folder... Ask her to explain all the advantages that RPGIII gives her over RPGIV...
If none of that gives her a clue, I'd suggest replacing her windows PC with DOS, since she has no need of anything ever produced since ILE and RPGIV was introduced in 1994...
-Eric DeLong
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sjl
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:55 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Reasons for using RPGIV
I am involved in a philosophical argument with one of the lead developers in
the JDE/Oracle V5R4 shop where I have been working as a consultant for the
last five years.
If I understand her correctly, her argument is that as a JDE shop that we
should NOT be using RPGIV at all, and that we should be writing /all/ code
in RPG/400. I don't necessarily disagree, in the case of simple mods to an
existing JDE program, but I would argue that /all/ new development should be
done in free-form RPGIV.
Background:
We currently have a mixture of OPM and RPGIV code.
Some of the RPGIV is programs that have simply been run through CVTRPGSRC to
convert them to fixed-form ILE source, other RPGIV code includes several
including entire sub-systems which have been written entirely in free-form
RPGIV utilizing service programs and binding source.
Other than hitting the RPG/400 compiler limits on the number of arrays,
tables, and files (which necessitates converting the program to RPGIV in
order for it to compile successfully), she wants me to present five
compelling reasons to justify the use of RPGIV, particularly free-form RPGIV
code.
Any thoughts? I need ammunition!
- sjl
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