Re: Getting started with Code/400

["Dwight HoganCamp" <Dhogancamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Violaine Batthish did write a book called "Understanding Code/400 on the
AS/400", available from Midrange Computing which has been helpful enough I
was  able to get the product up and running.. How do you have your PC
connected. I was on twinax and got dreadful results. When I called IBM they
said, "We don't have anyone using it on twinax to test with.

Once I was hooked up with Ethernet, it has worked much better.


ddh
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From: <Gwecnal@aol.com>
To: <CODE400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: Getting started with Code/400


> I have tried two or three times to use Code/400.  We have it, I can
install
> it, and
> it does appear to function - but the documentation is so poor that I can't
> actually
> USE the product.  No printed manuals, vague and strange html help files
that
> look as though they were written by different teams that were forbidden to
> speak
> to each other, and the overall function of the Integrated Development
> Environment
> seems to have been designed people that had used the popular ones (M$,
> Borland)
> and wanted to make sure that they could not be sued for look and feel
> infringement
> so NOTHING works like anyone who uses Windoze would expect.  More OS/2ish.
> I am not saying that it is a bad design paradigm - it might even be a
> superior one.
> I can't tell because I can't use the product.  Every couple of years I
take a
> week
> off, install everything, patch and PTF everything, run the tutorial, and
then
> try to
> use Code/400 in production.  Then I have to put it all away and do real
work.
> It is very frustrating because, generally speaking, I am not an idiot.  I
> have lots
> of experience in lots of platforms and in understanding all kinds of
technical
> stuff and I really, really want Code/400 to work so I can get off of SEU.
> Please, somebody at IBM write a manual!
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