Re: VARPG

Hi Justin, there are several big applications written in VARPG, the largest
that I know of,  is from an Italian ISV, SanMarco Informatica.  SanMarco
has written their ERP package in VARPG  for the frontend and RPGIV for the
backend business logic. They  have  a couple of hundred VARPG modules and
they have several hundred customers that run their Galileo ERP package in
production, so we know VARPG scales.

If you encounter problems with VARPG, just contact IBM support, it is a
fully supported IBM product and if there are bugs that  need to be fixed
open an APAR.

Claus Weiss Visual AD tools, email: weiss@xxxxxxxxxx
Dept 522 IBM Canada Lab tie 969-3987 Phone(905)413-3987 FAX(905)413-4850
Greetings from Toronto
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My answer to the question, 'Is VA-RPG worth looking into?', would be not
at this time.

It might work for simple applications but not much more.  It is not
object-oriented, which becomes more of an issue the more complex your
application becomes.  We have one application and it crashes
persistently.  It also does not support EIM, which is holding us back.

The latest planning statement eludes to some future overhaul but there
is no telling if and when that will happen.
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