RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

Rob,
I think they do that for one of two reasons.
1) They are used to using SEU and have a habit of exiting the tool when they
are finished.
2) WDSC uses up so much resource that shutting it down is the only way they
can do other work on their PCs.

With my (free) Visual RPG Editor (CodeStudio), I leave it up for hours, but
also, occasionally shut it down and start it back up. Why? I don't know; but
doing so doesn't cause me to wait "centuries" for it to start back up. In
fact, it normally starts up faster the 2nd time. 
The curious thing, my colleagues that use Exclipse, don't have the same
issues I'm seeing posted here with respect to WDSC/i. So I think the problem
isn't with Eclipse, it is with the AS/400 add-ons being so bloated that they
are causing their own set of issues.


-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.

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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:49 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

And that's one of my rubs.  How many people start their 5250 session, 
enter a command, sign off, and exit their 5250 session?  Then when it's 
time to do the next command do it all again?  No one (except this one gent 
in tech support who only does one command a week).  So why do they insist 
on shutting down wdsc in between editing each program?  I suspect it is 
because they are so unfamiliar with windows that they don't know how to 
use Alt-Tab, or click on an icon at the bottom or any other windows 
manuever.

Rob Berendt