Re: Maintaining old RPG 2 or 3 code on RDi

The Last Century Hardware called the "AS400" was discontinue in 1999, over 18-years ago. And the OS/400 V5R4M0 is no longer supported. Neither is windows 3.1 or MS-DOS 3.0 from the last century.

Our system administrator was still in High School, when that hardware was discontinued.

It never ceases to amaze me that "IT People" will NOT adopt to Modern technology.

No wonder Microsoft is winning. They have to re-write their code every couple of years to stay current!

Brilliant strategy by Microsoft! And they keep multiply like locust. They are winning!



-Ken Killian-


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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:56 PM
To: Wdsci-L <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Maintaining old RPG 2 or 3 code on RDi

I have to agree with all of Buck's sentiments - except why the heck do the updates in the RPG/400?

Having been part of the team that spent many many months making sure that there were as close to zero incompatibilities between the two compilers as possible in order to make it easy for people to convert without fear it really pains me to see people wasting time and money living in the past. It has been close to 25 years for goodness sake.

And yes JDE I do include you and all the other cheapskate ISVs who keep their customers in the dark ages.

There - I feel better now!


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Oct 6, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/6/2017 11:45 AM, Mohan Eashver wrote:

Do you believe that RDi does not like source type RPG & works only on
RPGLE

I personally feel it is a matter of professional ethics to try to
persuade an employer to stop maintaining RPG III code. But not every
employer believes we are professionals.

My advice to you is to create an RDi user command to implement
CVTRPGSRC. Open up that RPG III member, run CVTRPGSRC on it, and then
open the RPG IV member at the same time. Use the modern analysis
tooling on the RPG IV member, and edit the RPG III member. After a
few edits, the two members will be out of synch, and you'll have to
close the RPG IV, run CVTRPGSRC, and re-open the RPG IV to look at the
'current' version.

Ctrl-F6 will bounce between the two edit windows so you won't have to
keep using the mouse to change focus.

Good luck!

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--buck


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