Chris,

There is RPGII on z/OS and z/VSE.
There was an RPGIII that was on the S/38.
There was RPGIV i.e. RPG400 that was AS/400 centric.

As to your question, NO, RPGII has not changed in MANY years. Until about 1998, the last APAR was in the mid-80's. Then, about 1998, there as a single new APAR that talked about dates and simply showed how to use a call statement to call a date windowing subroutine. No object-code changes.

For a simple report writer, RPGII was fully developed by the 80's.
RPGIII was actually more restrictive in how it handled files due to the nature of the S/38. RPGIV/RPG400 tried to change the language to be free-form. In my opinion, it just made a mess of everything in the name of 'changes for changes sake'. They then shoved the changes down the throats of AS/400 users.

For writing complex programs, RPGII is not the way to go. But, for writing simple ad-hoc control break reports, it's really good.

Tony Thigpen

Chris Hoelscher wrote on 7/6/21 11:08 PM:
Back in the 80s - I indeed use RPG III - I am sure (okay I hope) it is more 
advanced in the past  36 years ...

Chris Hoelscher
Lead Sys DBA
IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc.
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Chris,

Please don't hit me for this, but RPGII with it's *auto feature can produce 
multi-level reports with very little code. And, there are still people that 
know how to write RPGII, although most of them will be in VSE shops were it is 
still used a lot. And, it's cheap.

Tony Thigpen

Chris Hoelscher wrote on 7/6/21 10:32 AM:
The site I support may soon be in the need for a load&go report writer

We would need an alternative to
         Culprit
         Eztrieve
         Quickjob
         Earl

Without any research - any other report writers come to mind?

Chris Hoelscher
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