Re: V5 availability

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From: Jon.Paris@hal.it <Jon.Paris@hal.it>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:41 PM
Subject: V5 availability


>I think this is a good Soundoff topic for COMMON - but frankly asking them
>to provide commands for everything won't go anywhere.  They can't/won't
>afford it.  We've told them for years that we want graphical interfaces,
>guess what we got what we asked for!
>

No, no, no... we wanted NATIVE... not something that required yet another
operating system and machine...

>Best we can hope for is to persuade them to publish the APIs.


yeah, unfortunately, I have to agree with the "best we can hope for" part.
But jeez... you (and probably everybody else on this list) knows that it
takes almost no time at all to produce a command against the API. So which
would be more cost effective? Considering that they are not currently
publishing those APIs, it would seem that generating a command for them vs.
producing the documentation of the API and all it's associated quirks, then
listening to how lousy the documentation is, would lead to the former as a
simple solution....

but I could be wrong....

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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