Comments on: RPG In Isolation http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2009/11/rpg-in-isolation/ Not Role Playing Games, but the RPG programming language and the craft of programming. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:41:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Buck http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2009/11/rpg-in-isolation/#comment-686 Buck Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:08:29 +0000 http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/?p=201#comment-686 We're moving (however slowly) to RPG IV / ILE. I write stored procedures that the webby people can call to reach out and touch our database without them having to become intimate with it. Being able to do it in RPG is very helpful, as the debugging is easy to work with. We’re moving (however slowly) to RPG IV / ILE. I write stored procedures that the webby people can call to reach out and touch our database without them having to become intimate with it. Being able to do it in RPG is very helpful, as the debugging is easy to work with.

]]> By: Susan http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2009/11/rpg-in-isolation/#comment-685 Susan Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:38:53 +0000 http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/?p=201#comment-685 So (anybody!) if you were currently (Jan.2011) on a 10-year-old AS/400 and almost all your applications were written decades ago in RPGII and OCL, and you were probably going to move to a new box in the near future, what language would you pick to gradually migrate the legacy apps to? What is the "best" technology to be on? What has the strongest pool of available programmers? RPG IV? RPG ILE? SQL & PHP? .NET ? There are few folks available now with RPGII skills, and my client really *must* get more up-to-date before I get hit by a bus! With their options wide open, I'm not really sure what to advise them. So (anybody!) if you were currently (Jan.2011) on a 10-year-old AS/400 and almost all your applications were written decades ago in RPGII and OCL, and you were probably going to move to a new box in the near future, what language would you pick to gradually migrate the legacy apps to? What is the “best” technology to be on? What has the strongest pool of available programmers?

RPG IV?
RPG ILE?
SQL & PHP?
.NET ?

There are few folks available now with RPGII skills, and my client really *must* get more up-to-date before I get hit by a bus! With their options wide open, I’m not really sure what to advise them.

]]> By: Buck http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/2009/11/rpg-in-isolation/#comment-427 Buck Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:54:19 +0000 http://www.rpgandprogramming.com/?p=201#comment-427 No doubt the success of RPG in the S/3 days left us with a glut of pre-existing home grown tool kits written in RPG. Tool kits that got converted again and again and are still in use today. How many RPG programmers just this year will learn to program in RPG by looking at that essentially 30 year old code? As for replacing us geezers, I fear the answer is going to be a canned package on commodity hardware. No doubt the success of RPG in the S/3 days left us with a glut of pre-existing home grown tool kits written in RPG. Tool kits that got converted again and again and are still in use today. How many RPG programmers just this year will learn to program in RPG by looking at that essentially 30 year old code?

As for replacing us geezers, I fear the answer is going to be a canned package on commodity hardware.

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