Re: Clarify AS/Set?

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Al,

In a message dated 2/12/99 4:03:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
MacWheel99@aol.com writes:

<<snip>>
> I did not get AS/Set because our Y2K consultants told my boss that AS/Set
was
>  for software houses doing heavy duty software development work like whole
new
>  modules & applications, not the kind of tailoring & tinkering & adding a
few
>  fields hither thither that we are likely to need.  Cynical me thinks they
were
>  setting themselves up for more future contracts with them that will cost my
>  employer much more than AS/Set.
>  
>  Am I out of touch with reality?
<<snip>>

No, but your consultants are.  How are you supposed to easily integrate new
versions and BMR's without ADK?  A well-written AS/Set program generates 2.5
times the RPG that you'd write yourself, and most BPCS programs _aren't_ well-
written AS/Set code.  You're supposed to wade in there and make changes?
Further (at least on the /400 version) SSA no longer ships the RPG and DDS for
V6 -- you're supposed to use ADK to generate your source code!

The productivity improvement with AS/Set isn't as great as you stated, but you
can write a _BETTER_ program in the same amount of time that it would take in
RPG.  Implementing commitment control in BPCS would be a _HUGE_ job.  My
current primary client ran a 24/6 530 with 200 users on the OS/400 job
scheduler for more than three years.  TAA tools are nice to have, but I'd go
for the ADK...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." -- Billie Jean King
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