RE: Is RPG dying

I was responding to the comment in the original message "so bad that some
programs from previous release don't work."

I realize that observability is important to make the operating system
upgrades. (We have an application that had to be re-written because the
source was not left on our machine by the contractors brought in to write
it. Apparently, no one knew about the missing source code until it was too
late...)


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:06 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Is RPG dying

Yes it does. You'll still need to analyze object conversion. That's a
6.1 requirement. Everything that applies to 6.1 will apply for 7.1.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Jay <tegger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh oh.

We're plotting a V5R4 to V7R1 upgrade in the 2nd or 3rd quarter this year.

I

guess having the observability doesn't matter in that case?

Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Raul A. Jager W.
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:05 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Is RPG dying

I think 6.1 had a lot of changes, so bad that some programs from
previous release don't work. But from 6.1 to 7.1 there are litle
changes. So, unless you come from someting before 6.1 you wont find to
many changes.

Don wrote:

Chuck,

Yeah, I know, but I'm surprised just HOW LITTLE has been written up on the
new functionality in 7.1 or else I've really missed it - which could be

the

issue.

From all I've seen and heard, 7.1 appears to be a hardware release and

yet

another thing to force people to pay more services fees to software

vendors

to get new objects for 7.1 that don't migrate from 6.x...  Remember when
that wasn't a problem???



-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:39 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is RPG dying

On 26-Feb-2012 16:52 , Don wrote:

Is there a list of NEW features added to the O/S, CL, RPG, etc with
v7R1?

The 7.1 overview that I saw from News/400 was good but was very heavy
on hardware and light on new programming and software features....

  One place to look is the InfoCenter for a release.  In many
subcategories, and in the main "IBM i 7.1" sections there are "What's
new" topics.  Visit the IBM i 7.1 InfoCenter and either expand any
particular section [such as "programming"] and review the "What's new"
topic within, or just type in "what's new" in the "Search:" area and
review the various results returned in that search.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp

Regards, Chuck

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