Conversion to free form

message: 7
date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:54:49 -0500
from: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Converting to free form

Would you rather have the conversion process delete them and lose the
information?

Bill responds...
The information is lost anyway because the compiler complains and then
it is extremely time consuming to go thru every line and manually delete
the offending characters.  Prior to V5R4 the compiler ignored anything
in cc1-5 now it doesn't.  My question still stands, if the compiler is
going to complain then the characters in cc1-5 should be either moved
and commented or deleted.  I like the conversion (for the most part) it
is this one point that just seems wrong. 

On 12/1/06, Bill Barnes <bbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have noticed a couple of gotchas when converting.  If there are any
characters in CC1-5 the conversion leaves them there and then the
compile complains and you have to go and manually remove the

characters

in CC1-5.  We use RPGTOOLBOX extensively and one of the things we use

it

for is to color source lines that have been commented out to red.  In
SEU this is extremely helpful when going through a listing you can

never

mistake commented code for real stuff.  It is mostly those lines that
bite us.  Also if any programmer put initials in 1thru5 they bite

also.

If the compiler doesn't like having anything in cc1-5 why does the
converter leave them there?



Thanks

Bill Barnes

Sr Analyst/Programmer

The Pantry, Inc

919-774-6700

ext 5211

message: 9
date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:36:37 -0500
from: "Samuel J Lennon" <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Converting to free form

FWIW:  I've done all my conversions (from RPG III to RPG IV and from RPG
IV 
to RPG /FREE) using Linoma RPGTOOLBOX product and its predecessors.  I
think 
you will find it hard to beat and that anything that IBM provides "free"
in 
WDSC will fall short.  I also drop back occasionally to the green screen
to 
re-indent /FREE code using the RPGTOOLBOX.

IMHO, Linoma makes good products.

And the IBM WDSC team doesn't do a bad job either.  Gotta have my WDSC,
but 
I stll use the green screen as needed.

Sam

I totally agree.  I have been a Linoma customer for a long time.  We had
a lot of input on RPGTOOLBOX and Surveyor.  I have a pretty good stock
of snippets that make my life easier and I start all my programs in
green screen so I can use my skeleton snippet.  The last I hear from Bob
was that he was looking at RPGTOOLBOX and WDSc to see if they could make
it a plugin.  That would be great.