Strategy and Best Practice for Modern RPG - Barbara Morris

This session discusses some of the features of the ILE RPG language that allow you to write modern code, and to develop in a modern way.

Learning Objectives:
- Learn the features of ILE RPG that allow you to write "modern" code
- Learn which old features to avoid
- Learn how using service programs can modernize your development, both new function, and maintenance

Barbara Morris

Lead Developer for the RPG Compilers, IBM

IBM

Barbara Morris is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1. Some of her most recent enhancements were the ON-EXIT and DATA-INTO opcodes and varying-dimension arrays. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.