RE: RSE confusion

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Phil
Thanks for your responses - it IS good to see IBMers are watching these lists.

Violaine has provided quick responses to a couple problems I ran into. I've
just not had time enough to really start using the product.

I'm not convinced y'all don't get a little lost in IBM's superstructure. It
was a few years ago (c. 1998) that my then employer settled on ASNA's
product, largely on the strength of their aggressive training program. Herr
Weiss had a class, but it was not the easiest thing to find info on it, and
my impression, as well as that of my coworker, was that there wasn't much
effort  on your part, not much commitment. Not saying this was true or not,
just a perception. Again, ASNA's product is probably a much larger part of
their total effort. But it happened. I wanted them to go with VA for RPG,
being true blue and, I thought, closer to the source vis a vis compiler
changes. But, alas.

At 08:09 PM 8/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Paul says:
>"Maybe IBM should do a poll... and ask how many people have even the
>slightest idea about what the different tools like WDSc, WSSDa, WDT, ...
>do. I guess they would be surprised by the answers, and it should make
>them think."
>
>--- actually, we don't need to do a poll to know mass confusion reigns :-).
>It is our hope that this is a temporary situation as IBM software settles
>on its
>new branding and naming conventions, which happens to overlap with
>some previously used names. But, we can't agree more with the confusion
>it causes today. Rest assured, within the iSeries space, we have done
>our best to add to that confusion with our own evolving naming strategy :
>-).

-snip-

>We think you will be pleasantly surprised by how rich/productive it is
>right now, for RPG/COBOL development (not to mention all the other iSeries
>stuff in there).

I've left my wish with Violaine that y'all put in similar support for
varification for C/C++ development. You used to have this kind of thing in
VA for C++. When WDS first came out as such, it became apparent that the
good stuff from VA for C++ was no longer going to be available. I mean,
this was while I was a contractor in the Performance Lab last year, and we
felt this loss pretty strongly. The ability to create, what was it, P-code,
or W-code, on the PC, had some of the same promise you have with the
verification of RPG and COBOL on the PC. Maybe a combination of both -
verification and precompile on the client, final linkage on the server?