Re: IBM Rational Developer for System i V7.1

Marie-Line Manchon wrote:

Joe

How can I tell my customers that after paying the high price for their
customized applications, they now have to pay, not for getting new
features, but for translating their program in a more modern style ? As
the programs are fully operationnal, customers won't see what it will
bring them to migrate, they'll just see that I will charge them for the
migration.

I guess it depends on how much you charge them.

I write each new RPG program in free-form ILE, and I use a lot of Java
for batches, but I can't migrate thousands of OPM programs for free.

I'm not trying to be silly, but why not? Converting RPG/400 programs to ILE is simply a matter of running CVTRPGSRC. You will then have ILE - not pretty ILE, but ILE nonetheless. And now you don't need the OPM compiler. CL to CLLE is even easier, just change the type.

Finally, everything will be ILE and/or web-based, but it will take a lot
of time.

Yes, there are a few things you have to consider, but moving to ILE is not that difficult. And frankly, that's why you're a consultant - to make sure those kinds of things get done. If you want to run all the old tools on your machine, you will have to pay a little more. That's the price of doing business.

Joe