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AS/400 - i5 - Starting RPG Compiler
Hi and thanks,
I use to work on a AS/400 B many years ago.
I use to write RPG Code.
But that has been over 15 years
I have forgotten even how to start a RPG Compiler?
I know that StrSQL on the AS/400 command line starts the SQL compiler
So could you please let me know how to:
Start: RPG, and any other commands withing the AS/400 command line???
Thanks
I use to work on a AS/400 B many years ago.
I use to write RPG Code.
But that has been over 15 years
I have forgotten even how to start a RPG Compiler?
I know that StrSQL on the AS/400 command line starts the SQL compiler
So could you please let me know how to:
Start: RPG, and any other commands withing the AS/400 command line???
Thanks
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Tom,
I saw one of your answered post and you mention:
OS/400 -> i5/OS -> IBM i
It is actually:
Sys32 => Sys34 => Sys36 => Sys38=> AS/400 =>i5/OS -> IBM i
I started with the Sys34 back in college and landed my first job using a Sys36.
I saw one of your answered post and you mention:
OS/400 -> i5/OS -> IBM i
It is actually:
Sys32 => Sys34 => Sys36 => Sys38=> AS/400 =>i5/OS -> IBM i
I started with the Sys34 back in college and landed my first job using a Sys36.
Your list is mixed, part hardware system names, and part operating systems.
Good idea to check your facts before you correct an expert like Tom :-)
In case anyone is interested, the line started with the System/3 (OS was DMS), then S/32 (SCP, I believe), S/34 and S/36 (SSP), S/38 (CPF), AS/400 (OS/400), iSeries (i5/OS), Power Systems (IBM i, AIX).
Good idea to check your facts before you correct an expert like Tom :-)
In case anyone is interested, the line started with the System/3 (OS was DMS), then S/32 (SCP, I believe), S/34 and S/36 (SSP), S/38 (CPF), AS/400 (OS/400), iSeries (i5/OS), Power Systems (IBM i, AIX).
You can find the version of all the IBM licensed programs installed on your system with:
GO LICPGM
Option 10.
GO LICPGM
Option 10.
I started with the Sys34 back in college and landed my first job using a Sys36.
I started with unit record machines, continued with hand-wiring logic boards for them, and jumped to "programming" with machine language and Autocoder on an 8K IBM 1401 (with a 4k expansion box about the size of a washing machine!) Then a Univac 1108, IBM 1130... since that time more systems and OSs than I can probably remember. For many systems, I only remember some of the projects and little about operational characteristics.
But the sequence is more like (keeping the OS references in place):
Sys32 => Sys34 => { Sys38 =>} Sys36=> AS/400 =>i5/OS -> IBM i
Though, the S/38 was technically an almost completely separate fresh start; it didn't come out of the S/3 technology line nor was the S/36 a successor of the S/38. S/38 was definitely the actual AS/400 predecessor since the earliest AS/400s were physically S/38s in new external boxes. The S/36 & S/38 subsystems were (relatively) easy to handle under OS/400. OS/400 could have been considered to be little more than CPF after a couple more releases would have been available.
Tom
ASKER
Tom,
I should restate my last post: I have worked on and thought that they were all related:
Sys34 - Sys36 - AS/400 and now iSeries
did not mean to be correcting, Gary is right:
Good idea to check your facts before you correct an expert like Tom :-)
Thanks for your help
I should restate my last post: I have worked on and thought that they were all related:
Sys34 - Sys36 - AS/400 and now iSeries
did not mean to be correcting, Gary is right:
Good idea to check your facts before you correct an expert like Tom :-)
Thanks for your help
ASKER
Great thanks
Don't worry about "correcting". I've needed correcting more often than I like to remember, so I always try to take it as something I might want to learn. I very rarely take it in any negative way, though I'm not good at always responding in a way that seems calm.
I had almost left IBM work for good during the S/34 era. I worked on a number of other platforms and started spending a lot of time on the Pick OS on a Microdata Reality system. I really started to appreciate it before taking on a project on a S/38. I Had no good idea what S/38s were all about, so I did a lot of the initial work in RPG II style. Sometime shortly after finishing the initial main interactive maintenance program, some lights started to go on and I realized IBM had something really new.
I stuck with it and waited as "Silverlake" rumors started circulating. I really worried that the IBM mainframe group would influence how the S/38 follow-on would be structured. But we did a customer-install of a B50 in September 1988 and I got to see that the AS/400 had kept going in the direction started by the S/38. After only a few months, I made a conscious decision that "AS/400" would be the basis of the rest of my career. I had almost no doubt that it'd still be around until after I retired.
Always happy to connect in forums with others who've seen the early as well as the recent times of the platform.
Tom
I had almost left IBM work for good during the S/34 era. I worked on a number of other platforms and started spending a lot of time on the Pick OS on a Microdata Reality system. I really started to appreciate it before taking on a project on a S/38. I Had no good idea what S/38s were all about, so I did a lot of the initial work in RPG II style. Sometime shortly after finishing the initial main interactive maintenance program, some lights started to go on and I realized IBM had something really new.
I stuck with it and waited as "Silverlake" rumors started circulating. I really worried that the IBM mainframe group would influence how the S/38 follow-on would be structured. But we did a customer-install of a B50 in September 1988 and I got to see that the AS/400 had kept going in the direction started by the S/38. After only a few months, I made a conscious decision that "AS/400" would be the basis of the rest of my career. I had almost no doubt that it'd still be around until after I retired.
Always happy to connect in forums with others who've seen the early as well as the recent times of the platform.
Tom
ASKER
What is the command to tell what RPG Version you have on the AS/400?
Thanks