Re: IBM is so confusing!

Dropping older versions of RPG has been tried in the past. While it may
help by making a financial incentive to finally convert S/36 and S/38 RPG
code into code compilable by CRTRPGMOD or CRTBNDRPG there were some
extremely vocal people who argued why should IBM be charging extra for
stuff that they've already developed, have no intention of enhancing and
only expense involved is to ensure that it still works on new releases?
Much like SEU and that ilk.
IBM announced dropping of those at one time. And retracted it.
Vocalization does help.

Breaking out a charge for something that has a future, like RDP, honks
people off but they'll pony up for it.
Breaking out a charge for something that has no future, like S/36 RPG,
just honks people off. Except for those (like me) who smile with glee
when something like that gets obsoleted and people are nudged to earn
their software maintenance fees and end programmers have dollars to argue
with management to convert. Of course, the obsolete freaks often will
just stop upgrading their OS and do weird things like have a museum of
various obsolete models to allow them to still use stuff on V2R3 to
generate their code. And... (oh cripe I have to break out of this rant
and get some real work done).


Rob Berendt