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  3. February 2008

Re: EGL in WDSC 7 vs EGL in RDi

Justin Taylor wrote:
My understanding is that the upcoming release of RBD 7.1 (aka EGL) will
have enhanced RPG support.
Not sure I understand, Justin. RBD has no RPG support. It has really, really good ILE support (meaning you can call ILE programs from EGL very cleanly) but there is nothing specific to RPG. All ILE languages are treated pretty much the same.

The only exception is COBOL, because you can actually generate COBOL code from EGL; that's part of its evolution from the old VAGen mainframe product. But the Rational folks have made it abundantly clear that you will never generate RPG from EGL. I think that's a mistake on their part, but they have finite dollars and they need to spend it where they see the best return.

Joe

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