Re: Convert to /free: Improvements in RDi?

You can also get the same utilities that Vern spoke of for free at
http://home.windstream.net/craigru/jcrcmd2.html

It has all sorts of utilities that convert the opcodes and it also changes the capitalization so you can have all lower case, all upper case or what i use all opcodes upper case and the rest lower case this is the JRC4MAX and I also use the JCR4PROTO to get the prototype conversion for all the calls. This has helped me tremendously in converting old code and then converting it to free. But I still use the RSE converter to free because the free converter in this one will not convert the /space and /title comments which I use. It does have a nice preconvert to free report where it will tell you every thing that will convert to the actual codes in a side by side report . There are many good free tools there that I use.

Al Slezak
Information Systems Division / NEWS Group Phone: (630) 451-7433 Fax: (630) 451-7401 Albert_Slezak@xxxxxxxxxx Making the Magic Happen


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John

This is where Linoma's product shines - it changes MOVEs to EVALs - always has - and that makes going to free form pretty painless. I've not seen its conversion to free-form, but I have to believe it is similarly more functional.

This is kind of frustrating - most MOVE operations are pretty easily replaced with some kind of EVAL - IBM know best what these can be. Wish they'd done more with the wizard.

Another item that does not convert is regular CALLs - these work nicely as CALLP, but you have to have a prototype. That information to use for creating that prototype is not always available directly in RPG source, I believe. So it'd take finding the actual program, maybe, and extracting from its body the parameter data types. Or prompt us for those values. Now that'd be a huge help.

OTOH, it's only slightly inconvenient to change MOVEs to EVALs - one can even record a keyboard macro sequence for it to handle many situations. Or one could write a plugin, maybe. Perhaps one should change the ones that present difficulty, before running the wizard. And in earlier releases of the OS, one can't use free-form SQL. So be sure to select the portion you want converted.

I recommend finding an example without CALLs and only simple MOVEs - we now have EVAL and EVALR, so both kinds of MOVEs work. Z-ADD also does not convert. Change those to EVAls, then convert. That will look lots better.

JMHO
Vern

John wrote:

I tried RDI 7.5 conversion to free the other day, converting a recently
written program from a developer stuck in the rpg II mindset : the

result

giving no improvement in readability. Converted source bounced in and

out of

/free and fixed format. ( Mainly because of the move op code). Result

was

less readable. I ended up keeping it fixed format.

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Samuel J Lennon

<lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

We're still on WDSc 7. Does RDi have any improvements in it's

conversion

to /free?

(Our code base goes back a ways, and the current conversion often make

the

converted code pretty hard to read unless you do a lot of hand

tweaking. I

had Linoma's RPG Tool Box at a previous job, which is the standard I'm
measuring against. They also have a smart re-indent that I liked. I'm

not

sure if the boss will spring for both Linoma and RDi...)

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