Posted by Mike on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 229 views
“You can’t do modern development with old tools. If you still have the old tools for writing RPG or COBOL code, you need to move forward. Move to modern compilers. Get to RPG IV, ILE COBOL and ILE CL.”
Read more of The Long and Short of Modernization here.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 570 views
The capability to run the Rational Developer for Power Systems Software (RDP) development environment on Linux-based PCs is one of the big new features that IBM has included with RDP version 8, which was unveiled last week and ships later this month. Also, a new “Power Tools” feature should make it easier to combine Java, RPG, and COBOL development on the IBM i platform.
Rational Developer for Power Systems Software–or RDP or RDp as some call it–is the new name that IBM gave to the Rational Developer for System i (RDi) Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) with the Power7 launch earlier this year. In addition to a new name (perhaps you were still getting used to WebSphere Developer Studio Client, or WDSc?), RDP also represented the consolidation of the primary IDEs for writing applications for the Power Systems runtimes, IBM i, AIX, and Linux.
READ MORE
Comments:
Filed Under: cobol
Posted by Mike on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 191 views
Any outsider taking a look at the RPG IV specification of today and comparing it to any other language that exists, including COBOL, and the great PL/1, … MORE