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Does this mean that we have to purchase OA from IBM, to use Profoundui?

For V6R1 or higher, yes.

We only sell the RPG Preprocessor for V5R3 or V5R4. On these systems IBM does not make OA available.

This is the entire reason the RPG Preprocessor exists -- to enable customers with older systems to use Profound UI. And to allow for trials on newer systems when IBM OA is not yet purchased and installed.

So, you are either buying the RPG Preprocessor from Profound Logic, or, you are buying OA from IBM, depending on your OS release.

FYI -- buying OA from IBM is the less costly option, anyhow. And it's a lot more seamless -- no special compile commands. Also if you are debugging the program, you'll notice that the Preprocessor has to insert a lot of extra code into the program. With IBM OA, this is not the case -- there is absolutely no extra code inserted.

So, if you've got an up-to-date system, OA is the way.