RE: state of the midrange (fwd)(menu option numbers in the grand scheme of things)

A few years ago we did some major menu housekeeping.  We took a couple of
large crowded menus and broke them down into smaller ones where you could
actually find the option you were looking for.  One of the end users in the
department that used the menus campaigned very hard for the menu options
retaining the numbers they had on the original menus--i.e. if it was 45 on
the 46 option old menu, it should be 45 on the 10 option new menu.  She
lost, but she fought hard for what she believed in.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PaulMmn [mailto:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:00 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: state of the midrange (fwd)
> 
> 
> > Another example is a customer I had where the operator 
> wondered why I
> >always typed 'those long commands that she had never seen': 
> WRKACTJOB,
> >WRKSYSSTS, WRKOUTQ, WRKJOBQ. Turns out the shop had utilities WA, WS,
> >WO, WJ and lots more to save keystrokes and THOSE were what she was
> >tought.  She had no idea how to 'build' an AS/400 command name and
> >would have blown a test in the weeds!  While she was a competant
> >operator to that customer she was not certifiable.
> >
> > - Larry
> 
> 
> How would an operator who had been taught to use the IBM 
> menus, and -only-
> the IBM menus, fare on a test that asked, "How would you 
> display an output
> queue?"  The answer to this operator would be something like, 
> "Menu options
> 3, 13, 27, then type the name of the queue."
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 
> 
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