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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.

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.


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