iSeries RPG Lawson API calls

'delmid' is an internal Lawson tool that they use to port their COBOL code to RPG. Although Lawson delivers 'delmid' with the Environment, they don't deliver some of the underlying code artifacts which are called by 'delmid'. You can try it, but I haven't been able to get it to work.

What sort of API translations are you trying to do? I.e. Database APIs?

e.g., RPG: CALLP DN@DBIFGLM1(E@DBFINDEQ) --> COBOL: PERFORM 840-FIND-GLMSET1

John,

Thanks for your response. I'm sorry to hear it's an internal Lawson application.

I have alot of DB translations like the one you showed.

When you try to run delmid, do you run it on the source platform or the target platform?

I'd like to try and see what kind of results I get.

Have you ever thought about writing something, like this, yourself? Do you think others would find it useful?

Do you have a reference that shows the translations?

Thanks,

Eric

I don't have a reference. I'm assuming you're trying to port some interfaces or something as part of a platform change? You might want to contact Analysts International or CIBER--they do a lot of this type of work...

If the programs are in COBOL and you have a COBOL compiler on your iSeries. You can move the source over and compile them on the iSeries. There is a little modification to be made to the code. They will run just fine.

Lawson's delmid tool doesn't translate the COBOL into very efficent RPG code. Most of the code that runs on the iSeries has been rewritten by Lawson to run more efficently

If you need additional help with this please feel free to contact me.

Scott K