Re: Getting started with Code/400

     Rob,
     
     I just went through training our group of programmers.  I spent a 
     while using CODE/400 myself, both taking a tutorial and using it for 
     production work.  IBM has several tutorials on their web site:
     
     http://207.25.251.248/software/ad/wdt400/course_downloads.html
     
     Then when the time was right, I just trained them using the same 
     tutorial/lab.  It seemed to work out ok.  
     
     
     I had more trouble getting the software loaded and working than I did 
     with training.  This mailing list is a good source of knowledge for 
     installation problems, along with the IBM website:
     
     http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/wdt400/
     
     and news group:
     
     news.software.ibm.com (the account) and ibm.software.code400 (the 
     newsgroup)
     
     Good Luck
     


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Subject: Getting started with Code/400
Author:  CODE400-L@midrange.com at INTERNET
Date:    5/24/01 3:48 PM


Well, my boss went to COMMON and came back quite enamored with Code/400. 
Isn't it funny how sometimes it takes someone from the outside to turn on 
the light switch?  I suppose it's my fault for not learning it on my own 
and doing the razzle-dazzle myself.  Anyways...
     
What are your suggestions for getting started?  Do we pour through manuals, 
get an ATS course, hire a trainer to come on site, or what?
     
When we started doing RPGLE we hired a trainer to come on site for a few 
days.  We have a training room with 10 PC's in it set up.
     
I want to make sure that we come away with a thorough understanding of 
Code/400.  For example an article in Midrange Computing went on about REXX. 
Said that you can't do the equivalent of F15 to change all the dates - you 
had to write a rexx macro.  So do you think we'll need at least some 
introductory in that?
     
     
Rob Berendt
     
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but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
     
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