from RPG

• New generation of programmers have no knowledge of RPG.

• no interface to DB2

• no up-to-date tools (e.g. debugger) available for RPG

to COBOL

• definition as X-Open language (portability)

• easy maintenance

• independent from "RPG -know how"

• the following options can be chosen later:

• File I/O - methods
• presentation variants
• Client/Server - concepts
• OLTP - architecture