Re: [WDSCI-L] RE: Error in WDSC conversion to /FREE?

[Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles, what's your option of the overall quality of the output of
Linoma's RPG Wizard?  One of these days I'm going to download the
evaluation copy; my problem will be deciding which 10 programs to run
through the conversion test..

-reeve


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:45:49 -0500, Wilt, Charles <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just ran a test.
> 
> Linoma's RPG Wizard is smart.
> 
> Here's the original:
> C           WKEY      CHAINTPDOCU               9090
> 
> Here's the converted:
> CHAIN(E) WKEY TPDOCU;
> *IN90 = %ERROR OR NOT %FOUND;
> 
> Charles Wilt
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jon Paris
> > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:19 PM
> > To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [WDSCI-L] RE: Error in WDSC conversion to /FREE?
> >
> >
> >  >> but for some mysterious reason, the WDSC utility doesn't
> > convert LOOKUP, .....
> >
> > No mystery to this.  It cannot convert to %Lookup because it
> > is not 100%
> > identical in function.  If the array is specified as
> > sequenced, %lookup will
> > do a binary search, LOOKUP did a linear search.  The result
> > is that LOOKUP
> > will find an out of sequence entry (i.e. when building the
> > array before
> > sorting it) whereas %lookup will not.
> >
> > There are other minor differences but this is the biggie.
> >
> > I agree that the tool is currently "broken" and should be fixed.
> >
> > Does anyone who has Linoma's tool know how it handles this?
> > Their tool does a
> > lot more reengineering than the IBM one.
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
> > Partner400
> > www.Partner400.com
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