RE: Getting started with Code/400

[coulthar@xxxxxxxxxx]

"The biggest thing nobody seems to be aware of is IBM plans to ditch SEU
SDA
PDM with v5.1. They are also working on eliminating DDS. "


==> Indeed, somebody forgot to tell IBM. :-). This is just another urban
legend, but a good one.


Phil Coulthard, AS/400 AD,  IBM Canada Ltd. coulthar@ca.ibm.com.
416-448-4076


---------------------- Forwarded by Phil Coulthard/Toronto/IBM on
05/28/2001 01:48 PM ---------------------------

Edmund Reinhardt/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA@midrange.com on 05/28/2001 01:04:53 PM

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PDM, SDA, etc. are NOT going away.
We will be providing better alternatives through CODE and now as of v5.1
Websphere Development Studio.
Details found at http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/wds400/


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Edmund Reinhardt, AS/400 AD Tools,  reinhard@ca.ibm.com
Dept 607,   IBM Canada Lab           TL 778-4392  Phone 448-4392


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Hi Dwight,


I'm curious where your getting your information from? This is the first I
heard about PDM, SDA, etc. going away! Is this something you've heard or is
it fact? Just wondering.


Thanks


Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight HoganCamp [mailto:Dhogancamp@ruger.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:01 PM
To: CODE400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Getting started with Code/400


Get used to the whole code package.  I've played with project, and designer

too. I find a few drawbacks, but it does have a lot of nice features too.


The biggest thing nobody seems to be aware of is IBM plans to ditch SEU SDA

PDM with v5.1. They are also working on eliminating DDS.


Our world will be changing drastically, and the more we work with that
stuff
the less shocking it will be.


----- 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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