Re: RPGIV to RPG-FREE conversion

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I second Craig's tools - he provides source, too, so you can make it 
handle anything you need. And you can change things you'd want done 
differently.

He also has a tool for making prototypes out of regular CALLs - very 
nice if you want to go all the way to prototyped calls (CALLPs).

You can find it all at www.jcrcmds.com -

HTH
Vern

On 2/3/2012 6:55 AM, Dave Shaw wrote:
> Have you looked at Craig Rutledge's /free (lol) tool?  Works pretty well, and
> the price is right.  It can be set up easily as a user action in RDp (or PDM or
> what have you).  Craig's a former colleague of mine here at Mohawk, where his
> tool's been tested against several million lines of rather ugly code.
>
> Tell Craig I should get a commission. ;-)
>
> Dave Shaw
> Mohawk Industries
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Bailey<PaulBailey@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
> System i&  iSeries<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Fri, February 3, 2012 5:57:19 AM
> Subject: [WDSCI-L] RPGIV to RPG-FREE conversion
>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently converting a lot of source to the /FREE version of RPG using the
> RDP (v8031) built-in converter, but I am having to do a lot of easily repeatable
> find-replaces as well.
>
> The built-in converter doesn't handle MOVE at all, which is sometimes fairly
> tricky to work out manually as well, but other opcodes like Z-ADD/Z-SUB, XLATE,
> OCCUR, SUBDT, etc. are all easily convertible to their relevant evals+BIFs with
> simple regular expressions.
>
> Is there a way of extending the built-in converter to handle these simple
> regular expression changes? Or is there another converter that I can use within
> RDP for little-to-no cost that does the job better?