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

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reeve,

To be honest, I personally haven't used it to much, but I like what I have seen.

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 Reeve
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:18 PM
> To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RE: Error in WDSC conversion to /FREE?
> 
> 
> 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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