Re: Convert to /free: Improvements in RDi?

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While I don't disagree with your sentiments - to be fair to IBM they  
never pushed the /free conversion as a full-blown tool and in fact it  
was only ever intended to be used to convert blocks of code not whole  
programs. You can argue with that design point (and could raise a PMR  
for that matter) but it is very much working as designed - this goes  
all the way back to CODE and WDSC - nothing new.

The reason it doesn't convert moves to evals is simple - it only looks  
at one line at a time and converts based on what it finds. In other  
words it has no idea what the data types of the fields are and  
therefore cannot determine how to substitute. Linoma's tool on the  
other hand goes under the covers and determines the data types involved.


Jon Paris

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On 29-Jul-09, at 9:25 AM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.