RE: Code/400 and *CURLIB -- CODE400-L

Jon,

My hat's off to you for having the nerve to teach CODE & collect payment!
<vbg>

I hate it when someone finds the STRCODE command and takes it.  *PRV really
sucks.  Also sucks when someone creates a server and leaves *USRPRF as the
current library.  We all have current libraries but they're not in the user
profile.  It can take a long time to figure out who did it.

As long as a current library is required, QGPL should not be allowed.  And
get rid of *PRV.  And why should I have to figure out what my IP address is?
There's an API - why can't STRCODE determine what my IP address is?

I have a CL pgm (which I probably got most of from this list) which
retrieves the IP address of the PC, retrieves the current library, then
creates a unique server name based on the current library.  This way the
server always has the correct IP, a unique server name, correct port,
correct connection type.  (Why can't all of this be the default?)  This only
gets screwed up when a user takes the STRCODE command by itself and leaves
all of the default *PRV values.

I don't have anything to keep a user from setting up a server in the comm
console with no current library.  And without one, screwy things do happen.
*USRPRF shouldn't be allowed unless the user profile is validated to see if
there is one.

In spite of all these problems, users still would rather use CODE than SEU.
Really says something about GUI, doesn't it?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: code400-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:code400-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jon Paris
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:25 PM
> To: Code400-L@Midrange.Com
> Cc: Susan Gantner; Violaine Batthish; George Farr; Edmund Reinhard
> Subject: Code/400 and *CURLIB
>
>
> I'd like know how other Code users handle the problems caused by Code's
> insistence on having a current library that is unique to the user.  (Yes I
> know this is not an absolute but the strangest things happen when you
> don't).  I'd also be interested in hearing what IBM are doing to fix it.
> I'd have written up a problem report, except technically I'm not an IBM
> "customer" so they won't accept it.
>
> The problem has just been highlighted again for me while teaching an RPG
> class where we are also teaching them to use Code/400.  To start with they
> were thrilled with the product and keen to jump into using it.  We checked
> out that they had current libraries before they started (which
> most of them
> did) and off we went.  Of course as they started exploring (and we had to
> reload from time to time due to the seemingly inevitable "booms") someone
> eventually managed to get a copy of the STRCODE User Space into QGPL.  The
> result (which will not come as news to many of you) was that messages
> started going to the wrong person, person A's server shut down
> when person B
> requested a server shut down, etc. etc.
>
> We wasted about two hours debugging and correcting the various problems.
> The cause was not always immediately obvious, particularly since by chance
> some users had named their autostart server as OS400!!  Now that was fun
> since it clashed with any attempt to use an STRCODE server - which is
> normally the easy answer to current library problems!!
>
> Luckily most of the students hung with it and continue to use the editor
> despite the problems, but ......
>
> Anyway - comments and suggestion are welcome.
>
>
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