RE: Getting started with Code/400 -- CODE400-L

Title: RE: Getting started with Code/400

I'm pretty much the same way, Mark. I've only been using code/400 for a couple of months, but I love it. With the exception of debug crashing every single time I use it!! (&#*@#&$$&#)()!@ thing!! ha ha. I always get a stack overflow. I'm hoping when we get some CD's rather than downloading the demo from the web it'll take care of the problem. I'm still not very comfortable with the code designer. I EVEN find RLU easier to use! ha ha. I'm sure it's mostly due to my ignorance of the product.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: MWalter@hanoverwire.com [mailto:MWalter@hanoverwire.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:30 PM
To: CODE400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Getting started with Code/400

I was a die hard SEU,SDA,RLU guy. After 3 months using CODE/400, I wouldn't
be without it. That's not saying it doesn't nee some help. There is a
course available for download at
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/wdt400/pdf/CodeLab_Course_21LF.pdf.

It's not too bad.

Good Luck

Mark

Mark Walter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
mwalter@hanoverwire.com
http://www.hanoverwire.com
717.637.3795 Ext.3040

"Dwight HoganCamp"

<Dhogancamp@ruger. To: <CODE400-L@midrange.com>

com> cc:

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owner-code400-l@mi

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05/25/01 03:36 PM

Please respond to

CODE400-L

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
----- Original Message -----
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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