Any RPGII programmers out there?
R & M Materials Handling, Inc.
Hello,
I've been an RPGII System 3X programmer for over 20 years.
I see that most of the jobs out there are now for RPG 3 on AS/400.
Will any of you RPG II programmers please share what it is like going from
RPG II to RPG 3 and if you had any problems landing your first AS/400 job.
From a couple of the jobs I looked into they'd rather have someone with 1
or
2 years in RPG 3 than someone with 20 in RPGII. Is there really
that much of a difference?
Thanks,
Sandy
DAsmussen
Sandy,
You wrote:
There really is that much difference. To start, you need to know CL rather
than OCL and the difference between the two is like day and night (beyond CL
being compiled and OCL being interpretive). Well-written RPG III uses op-codes
that aren't available in RPG II, left-hand indicators and O-Spec's are gone in
favor of *IN checking and print files. I took a great pay cut to learn the
AS/400 and, IMHO, it was the best money I ever spent.
Feel free to write me directly if you have any specific questions...
Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC USA
E-Mail: DAsm...@aol.com
"As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." -- Joan
Gussow
now...@merck.com
Sandy,
By the sounds of your short resume, you should be highlighting your
years of experience. This should be a big plus for you. You may have to
take a step back in relative experience and pay for a short while to
learn RPG IV ILE RPG and the AS/400, but make sure you show that you are
very willing to learn and that your "lack of RPGIV" experience is well
over shadowed be your 20 years of programming.
I went from RPGII to RPGIII because of my mfg industry experience and
then onto RPGIV (way back when). It easy enough to pickup the
differences and you'll love it when you get there, not that there is
anything wrong with RPGII. But IV is so much easier and quicker to
develop.
Good Luck
Bill Wragg, Systems Consultant
World Class Information Systems
wragg@<nospam>ciaccess.com
R & M Materials Handling, Inc. wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I've been an RPGII System 3X programmer for over 20 years.
> I see that most of the jobs out there are now for RPG 3 on AS/400.
> Will any of you RPG II programmers please share what it is like going from
> RPG II to RPG 3 and if you had any problems landing your first AS/400 job.
> From a couple of the jobs I looked into they'd rather have someone with 1
> or
> 2 years in RPG 3 than someone with 20 in RPGII. Is there really
> that much of a difference?
> Thanks,
> Sandy
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David Barlow
Sandy,
I trained on the AS400, but got my first job on a S/38 which had a lot of
legacy S/3 software - on which I worked for abouit to years before going
back to AS400.
Basically, the program cycle is all but dead, matching records & level
breaks, are only whispered in dark corners and considered treasonable. On
the bright side, if you can understand all that crap then you can easily
adjust to procedural programming. Also don't forget your 20 years
experience in analysis, database design etc. etc. etc. can never be
outdated. I suggest you buy a book, read it then put on an air of self
confidence as you knock on doors. Pay particular attention to subfiles.
Dave Barlow.
Liverpoool UK.
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