Re: RPG III (RPG/400)

​I don't quite understand this...

I'd expect any current version of a vendor package to be RPG IV at this
point. If for no other reason than it saves having to require new
customers to buy both OPM and ILE compilers. In fact, during our recent
ERP search, both packages I looked at were RPG IV. Maybe not as much ILE
as I would have liked, but they both were at least using RPG IV and some
ILE.

If you're running unsupported, then I'd follow Buck's example of converting
to RPG IV for any changed program.

Honestly, I've got some unsupported RPG III, and even if all I'm doing is
looking at the source, I'll convert it to RPG IV (in a temp library) and
pull it up in RDi.​

Charles


On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Scott Johnson <Scott.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We are using Infor XA. So for that we still see a lot of RPG/400. (A
couple of them have hit the 50 file limit.)
Existing in-house programs that have been developed in the past are a mix
of RPG/400 & RPG IV (both fixed and free).
New in-house is RPG IV Free.

We did get RDi 9.1.1.1 installed on all of the developers PCs recently.
They also went thru a training session with IBM. Those that have tried RDi
like it. They just tend to fall back to old habits.
I pretty much use RDi fulltime. It is funny because they will ask me how
to do something in greenscreen TurnOver and I can't remember how to do it.
But I can go into the RDi plugin and do it in no time flat without even
thinking. :)


Thanks,
Scott Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry
Hertel
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 1:21 PM
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Subject: [WDSCI-L] RPG III (RPG/400)

I'm wondering how many people using RDi are still supporting RPG III
(RPG/400) code? All of our new development is done in RPG IV but our
manufacturing and financial systems are old purchased software originally
written in RPG III (RPG/400). There are some functions that aren't
supported for RPG member types and some that is not missing but for all
practical purposes is hidden unless you know the shortcuts. I'm pretty sure
we're in the minority but am wondering how many of us are out there.
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