Jon Paris and Susan Gantner

Jon here, back again with the sixth and final episode in this journey through the history of RPG IV. I must say I have enjoyed writing these pieces - they bought back fond memories and of course a few not-so-fond ones! Before starting into the topics…

This originally appeared as a post in our (now inactive) blog called iDevelop published by IBM Systems Magazine. At the end of the previous episode of this saga, I mentioned that in this blog entry I would explain why the No. 1 outstanding user…

In the last thrilling (?) installment we left you with the cliffhanger that "there was still one more skirmish to be fought in the battle ..." and indeed there was. As I noted in part 3, many of the external review team members thought that we had…

In the last part of the story I mentioned that we had started to go "open Kimono" on the design of RPG IV and that this subsequently caused problems ... That's where we pick up the story this time. Once we started to show regular RPGers the outline…

We left the first part of Jon's saga “The Birth of a New RPG” with the realization that perhaps the SAA RPG compiler that had been developed for OS/2 and mainframes could become the foundation for a new ILE compiler for the (then) AS/400. The story…

RPG IV will be 21 years old this fall (2015). In thinking about how we could celebrate this auspicious event at the upcoming RPG & DB2 Summit, Jon got to reminiscing about the "birth" of RPG IV. The following are his best recollections of those early…