RE: CA/400 Woes

[Chris Rehm <Mr.AS400@xxxxxxx>]

** Reply to note from "Brian Lawson" <BLawson@classic.msn.com> Sun, 23 Nov 97 
23:04:08 UT

> Life is too short for the hassles of Client Access.  I have wasted days
> (maybe 
> weeks) of my time with Client Access.  Unless you need ODBC then use a Telnet 
> Client until IBM gets it right.  If they want the AS/400 to be the "Server of 
> Choice" then they have spent too long fixing this.
>   
> My apologies to any IBMer's on the list.  Present company is, of course, 
> excepted from my diatribe. :)

Not too long ago I misspoke myself by typing that I felt Client Access was
one of the few things done right. What I meant is that the 5250 emulation
area is one of the few areas of the 400 that is going well (IMO). There are a
number of different packages available.

Oddly enough I have been using CA for the last several months and have had no
problems with it, but I just use it for 5250 so it could be that I don't push
it too much. However, I have seen problem after problem reported here about
it. 

If it weren't for AS/400 shops habit of buying whatever gets bundled, this is
a product that wouldn't survive. 

   
> Regards,
> Brian L.
 

Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net

How often can you afford to be unexpectedly out of business?
Get an AS/400.
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