Re: Getting started with Code/400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Reeve" <reeve@starband.net>
To: <CODE400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 12:28 PM
Subject: RE: Getting started with Code/400


> I found it was pretty useless until a friend gave me a set of macros (or
as
> IBM would call it "Extras") that make it function more like Flex-Edit used
> to.  So when someone new starts using it, I send them the Macros, and a 2
> page sheet describing them.  I don't use the project manager or any of the
> rest of it, just the RPG, CL, DSPF... code editor.  I haven't tried the
code
> designer yet either because SDA seems quick enough.
>
> BTW: I used to like Flex-Edit, but it took them too long to get the TCP/IP
> interface working.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-code400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-code400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Gwecnal@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:53 AM
> To: CODE400-L@midrange.com
> 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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