The following is a summary of known issues that may need to be addressed manually when converting RPG applications programs to RPG Open Access and Profound UI.
If you are using the Job’s Start User Id to identify users. This will have to be changed to
use to use the Job’s Current User Id, as the Job’ Start User Id does not contain the expected
data expected data in a browser environment.
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When running programs within the HTTP subsystem, generated spooled files are
assigned are assigned to a separate job. This will require modifying certain logic that depends on
OVRPRTF on OVRPRTF or CPYSPLF commands.
Data structures based on display file record formats will not have the same layout as in
the in the original application. Programs that use such data structures would have to be
modified.
In converted programs, certain INFDS (Information Data Structure) fields may not be
available be available or will provide different information compared to the green-screen environment.
These These programs will have to be modified.
Use of special values, such as *DATE to retrieve the current date may not work as
expectedas expected. *DATE represents the job running under start date. In a Web environment, this will return the date the HTTP server job started, which may or may not be the same as the date the session started.