Re: Convert to /free: Improvements in RDi?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon

I hear you on this - I've decided not to change some MOVEs because I 
just don't have the time to deal with a couple data type issues - 
especially around dates and MOVEL/MOVE combinations. So, yeah, this all 
makes sense.

The free tools (Craig Rutledge) that Al  Slezak pointed out do a pretty 
nice job - a couple things did not happen for me, but that's OK. They 
are a nice middle ground between raw CVTRPGSRC and Linoma's package, 
which is awesome. (Bob L., put the check in the mail, please!)

Vern

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