Report Program Generator
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report program generator
[ri′pȯrt ¦prō‚gram ‚jen·ə‚rād·ər] (computer science)
A nonprocedural programming language that provides a convenient method of producing a wide variety of reports. Abbreviated RPG.
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Report Program Generator
(tool)(RPG) An IBM programming language developed by Wilf Hey at IBM in 1965 for easy production of sophisticated
large system reports.
RPG is a 3GL similar to COBOL, but more concise and supposedly easier for non-programmers to use. It processes its input one line at a time and does not treat tables as conceptual entities.
It was popular on System 34/36 minicomputers.
Versions: RPG II, RPG III, RPG/400 for IBM AS/400. MS-DOS versions by California Software and Lattice. Unix version by Unibol. Cross-platform version by J & C Migrations runs on MS-DOS, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, and OS/390.
See also CL, OCL.
RPG is a 3GL similar to COBOL, but more concise and supposedly easier for non-programmers to use. It processes its input one line at a time and does not treat tables as conceptual entities.
It was popular on System 34/36 minicomputers.
Versions: RPG II, RPG III, RPG/400 for IBM AS/400. MS-DOS versions by California Software and Lattice. Unix version by Unibol. Cross-platform version by J & C Migrations runs on MS-DOS, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, and OS/390.
See also CL, OCL.
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