VisualAge for RPG: Difference between revisions

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An RPG development system for OS/2 and later also developed for Microsoft Windows and commonly referred to inside IBM as VRPG (and not VARPG as was the convention with other VisualAge family tools). The system has some OS/2 and Windows development capability including some good quality screen designers but is primarily as AS/400 development tool, the code generation for OS/2 and Windows is intended to create GUI clients for a client/server setup that includes an AS/400 server although stand-alone OS/2 and Windows applications can be created with the system. The package comes integrated with the LPEX editor and makes extensive use of the macro facilities included with it.

The VisualAge for RPG product was discontinued somewhere after 2000 and its functionally replaced with tools from the Rational Developer family.

Versions

1995: Version 3, Release 6 - Last OS/2 only release
1996: Version 3, Release 7 - First release with MS Windows support - Last OS/2 release

1997 - Version 3, Release 2 - Renamed version of V3R7

May 1999: VisualAge RPG and Cooperative Development Environment for AS/400 (5769-CL3) V4R4

Related software

Visual Tools/400 - VRPG file I/O control - Commercial - Discontinued

Links

A copy of IBM's old VisualAge for RPG homepage - From Archive.org
Getting started with VisualAge for RPG
Sharon Hoffman: IBM's VRPG Hits the Street - 1995

Licence and availability

Discontinued commercial software

Publisher

IBM

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-An [[RPG]] development system for OS/2 and later also developed for [[Microsoft Windows]] and commonly referred to inside IBM as '''VRPG''' (and not VARPG as was the convention with other VisualAge family tools). The system has some OS/2 and Windows development capability including some good quality screen designers but is primarily as [[AS/400]] development tool, the code generation for OS/2 and Windows is intended to create GUI clients for a client/server setup that includes an AS/400 server although standalone OS/2 and Windows applications can be created with the system. The package comes integrated with the [[LPEX]] editor and makes extensive use of the macro facilities included with it.
+An [[RPG]] development system for OS/2 and later also developed for [[Microsoft Windows]] and commonly referred to inside IBM as '''VRPG''' (and not VARPG as was the convention with other VisualAge family tools). The system has some OS/2 and Windows development capability including some good quality screen designers but is primarily as [[AS/400]] development tool, the code generation for OS/2 and Windows is intended to create GUI clients for a client/server setup that includes an AS/400 server although stand-alone OS/2 and Windows applications can be created with the system. The package comes integrated with the [[LPEX]] editor and makes extensive use of the macro facilities included with it.
 The VisualAge for RPG product was discontinued somewhere after 2000 and its functionally replaced with tools from the Rational Developer family.
 ==Versions==
-* 1995 - Version 3, Release 6 - Last OS/2 only release
+* 1995: Version 3, Release 6 - Last OS/2 only release
-* 1996 - Version 3, Release 7 - First release with MS Windows support - Last OS/2 release
+* 1996: Version 3, Release 7 - First release with MS Windows support - Last OS/2 release
-* 1997 - Version 3, Release 2 - Renamed version of V3R7, OS/2 support dropped
-====Related software====
+* 1997 - Version 3, Release 2 - Renamed version of V3R7
+* May 1999: VisualAge RPG and Cooperative Development Environment for AS/400 (5769-CL3) V4R4
+==Related software==
 * [[Visual Tools/400]] - VRPG file I/O control - Commercial - Discontinued
-==Links & publications==
+==Links==
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/19961226161215/http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/varpg/index.html A copy of IBM's old VisualAge for RPG homepage] - From [[Archive.org]]
 * [http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/QBKAFE00/CONTENTS Getting started with VisualAge for RPG]
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-[[Category:RPG]][[Category:Software written in Smalltalk]][[Category:System i Tools]][[Category:VisualAge Family]]
+[[Category:RPG development environment]][[Category:Software written in Smalltalk]][[Category:VisualAge Family]]