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  3. February 2011

Re: IBM is so confusing!

Rob,

Not sure I buy that argument...

If even RPGIII SEU/PDM isn't enhanced....I'm sure there must still be
a cost incurred by IBM when making sure that the silly things still
work with a new release of the OS.

It's one thing to protect a customer's investment....

It's another to make it easier (cheaper) to sit in the past than to
move forward.

Charles

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

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