So, whenever possible, if I'm editing some old RPG3 or RPG400 code I spend a coffee^* cleaning the code up to a more readable form:

• Use CVTRPGSRC if its old RPG3 stuff
• Change '1' to *ON
• Change '0' to *OFF
• Change Z-ADD to EVAL
• Insert comments where applicable
• put some spaces between subroutines and blocks of functionally similar code
• Then its into WDSC7 and convert to /FREE

Websphere is old technology but I'm not going to spend over $800 on IBM's Rational Developer for i version... c'mon IBM come up with a sensible price for a source code editor. Obviously, the most sensible is FREE.

DO LOOPS are something that sometimes make me scratch my head when uplifting to RPG4. So just for my reference here is an example of the exact same code in RPG3, RPG400 and RPG4 (or RPG ILE as its sometimes called).

RPG3

             DO        SAVRRN        X
             MOVE      THIS          THAT
X            IFGT      10
FIELD1       CAT       FIELD2        RESULT      
             END
             END

RPG400

             DO        SAVRRN        X
             EVAL      THAT = THIS
X            IFGT      10
             EVAL      RESULT = FIELD1 + FIELD2
             ENDIF
             ENDDO

RPG4

   for x = 1 to SAVRRN by 1;
      This = That; 
      if x > 10;
         Result = Field1 + Field2;  
      endif;
   endfor;      

/me loves some RPG Free format  :)

_{* A 'coffee' is the amount of time it takes to drink a regular cup of brew. This is slightly shorter than the English standard time unit of a 'tea' because that also has 'biscuits' multiplied by 'dunk' to take into consideration.}