Re: Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG

We have 6 other RPG programmers (We had 7 but different division got rid of
AS/400 and laid him off). Of that number 1 is willing to write some modern
code. All the other absolutely refuse. RPG monolith or nothing. How many
programmers do you think that we could find that would be willing to use
procedures, modules, service programs and SQL? We have a business local that
is looking for somebody like that for a year (Contact to hire. Really
Contract to Term) and can't find anybody. We have another business local
that is looking for RPG monolith for a year and cannot find anybody but like
I have said in the past. Strange market. Virtually no jobs.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alan Campin wrote:
Impossible to even think about rewriting in RPG.
Cannot get programmers.
Almost impossible to find programmers willing to write modern code.

I'm always saddened to hear about companies migrating applications from IBM
i to Windows, and I'd like to understand the rationale as much as anyone,
but each of your points come across as untenable. I understand that there
are other platform and language choice besides RPG, but can you elaborate
why it would be impossible to even think about it? Surely it can't due to a
lack of programmers willing and able to create modern code!

-Nathan
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