Re: ILE philosophy

doug,

At 9/20/02 10:45 AM, you wrote:

My limited understanding is that the budget is limited.  IBM can't provide all
the tools without charging more, and it is not clear everyone wants to pay
more.
To me a classic example would be conversion programs for RPG/400 syntax to
RPG IV.

 If you have worked w/ a "real" ILE application (and you probably have), I
think that you'll admit that the development environment is not even close
to what it needs to be.  There are *way* too many manual steps, info that
is clumsy to get at, etc.

 Letting IBM off the hook at this stage of the ILE game (I was a lot more
forgiving when ILE first came out) for a real dearth of ILE management
tools, is not productive.

 I agree w/ you about simple tools, i.e. the OPM -> ILE source converter,
but not basic object creation / management tools.

 A "real" integrated MAKE tool is a no-brainer as a requirement.  I
believe that this is *one* of the reasons that it's taken a long time for
ILE to catch on - it's a more difficult environment to manage, but I don't
think that it has to be that way.

 -mark