The Report Program Generator (or RPG for short) is a high-level programming language serves a wide array of business applications and uses. An IBM proprietary programming module, the language is largely used for IBMi Series products or hardware with the OS/400, IBM-based system.

Historically, IBMi Series products and the RPG powered servers, networks and business-systems for mid-sized to large organizations. Built to redundant for added strength and security, it gained a reputation as extraordinarily high performing with CPU’s that outpowered most competitors. Since its inception in the 1950’s it dominated manufacturing and information technology. Even now, iDatalabs reports that almost 30,000 companies use IBM AS/400 hardware, and 40% of those are small businesses with another 33% comprised of large businesses. The AS/400 systems host powerful database management software, cloud solutions, or systems that require low latency and extreme reliability. Companies using these need access to programmers who know RPG codes, particularly the most current version RPG IV, also known as ILE RPG. The latter evolutions of the language are as powerful as COBOL and PL/I. Depending on your company’s needs, you may need programmers who help you migrate software while you continue using AS/400 systems or to help write code in latest forms of RPG.

Why RPG Works So Well
When RPG was first developed, the major stronghold that it had was known as the program cycle. Every RPG program executes programs within a hypothetical loop. This loop is able to apply the same program to every file on record. At that time, there will be a comparison between each record and every line in the program. Every line has the choice to either act on the record or not, based on whether that line has an indicator turned on or off. The entire idea of level breaks and matching records is one that is unique to the RPG II language.

Ever since System/38 was introduced in 1979, majority of RPG programmers stopped making use of the cycle and rather opted for the controlling program flow which has standard looping constructs. However, IB has also continued to provide backward compatibility for the cycle.

AS400 RPG Programmers
Our IBM iSeries programmers (or AS400 RPG Programmers, if you will) are specially trained professionals to use the RPG programming language to manipulate and solve current systems issues, including cloud computing, database management and development, and hardware solutions.

Our programmers create codes that can be integrated into business operations in order to ensure a higher level of efficiency. On any particular day, our RPG programmers generate new cod, maintain and update existing code programs and help you with analysis, design, development and maintenance of your IBMi systems. Our programmers work with RPG, RPG ILE, RPG-FREE, and SQL. They will following various functional specifications in order to create technical documentation and develop pseudo codes, strengthen your existing code or troubleshoot your business processes to diagnose where the issues are. Our programmers can also debug existing software to locate and solve issues.