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Rick Sawyer | 18 Jun 2012 21:00
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Re: Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

   Hi everyone,

   I just subscribed to this list starting today and looking through the
   recent archives I saw this comment that I thought I should respond to.

   I am a member of the RD Power development team, and I work on the AIX
   COBOL tools.

   When the AIX COBOL tools were being created at first, we were able to take
   advantage of the COBOL tooling that was created for System z.  Although
   this took some effort, it was relatively easy since the COBOL language is
   almost exactly the same for AIX and System z (the compilers share parsing
   technology).  On the other hand, IBM i COBOL is significantly different
   from AIX and System z COBOL.  Now that we have a common COBOL tooling
   component, with no system-dependencies, for AIX and System z, that does
   make it a little easier to bring this to IBM i as well.  However, that
   said, with the significant language differences there is still a lot of
   work that would be needed to bring the full set of tooling to IBM i.

   A first step towards this kind of support would be bringing the outline
   view up to the level of the AIX COBOL one.  The best way to ensure that
   you see COBOL enhancements is to vote for those RFEs.  We really try to
   please our customers, and we do listen, as we showed by delivering some of
   your most voted for RFEs in 8.5.

   Rick Sawyer
   Rational Developer for Power
   IBM Software Group, Rational

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Austin, Mark | 19 Jun 2012 08:42

Re: Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

Hi Rick,

Good to have you here.

I am an IBM i COBOL developer of 25 years and despite the COBOL tooling falling behind the RPG I must say that
RDPi is the best tool I have ever used and very much appreciate all the work that has gone into the product.

Thanks for explaining how it has evolved and I will, if I haven't already, vote for all of the COBOL related
RFEs. I do hope that more enhancement of the IBM i COBOL tooling can be done.

Best regards,

Mark Austin
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Jeff Buening | 19 Jun 2012 14:09
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Re: Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

I will agree also, have messed some with PDM and agree WDSC/RDP is a
wonderful enhancement to PDM.  Luckily when I started they had just got
WDSC 5, so never really had to code much in PDM, so I probably don't
appreciate the enhancements of WDSC/RDP as much as other COBOL programmers
(What amazes me is I am still trying to get some to move to RDP).  Still
just want to make sure the IBM i COBOL developer isn't completely forgotten
about on upgrades, since that is the hand I am dealt.:).



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Vern Hamberg | 20 Jun 2012 03:54
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Re: Fw: RDP 8.5 Announced

Hi Rick

Welcome to the group - I'm always grateful for the way you developers 
look at this site and respond when you can.

Vern

On 6/18/2012 2:00 PM, Rick Sawyer wrote:
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I just subscribed to this list starting today and looking through the
>     recent archives I saw this comment that I thought I should respond to.
>
>     I am a member of the RD Power development team, and I work on the AIX
>     COBOL tools.
>
>     When the AIX COBOL tools were being created at first, we were able to take
>     advantage of the COBOL tooling that was created for System z.  Although
>     this took some effort, it was relatively easy since the COBOL language is
>     almost exactly the same for AIX and System z (the compilers share parsing
>     technology).  On the other hand, IBM i COBOL is significantly different
>     from AIX and System z COBOL.  Now that we have a common COBOL tooling
>     component, with no system-dependencies, for AIX and System z, that does
>     make it a little easier to bring this to IBM i as well.  However, that
>     said, with the significant language differences there is still a lot of
>     work that would be needed to bring the full set of tooling to IBM i.
>
>     A first step towards this kind of support would be bringing the outline
>     view up to the level of the AIX COBOL one.  The best way to ensure that
>     you see COBOL enhancements is to vote for those RFEs.  We really try to
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