RE: User profile creation

RE:     RE: User profile creation

At 03:03 PM 5/1/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>>Bruce,
>>you mean it the interest of looking out for us, functionality has
>>been restricted ?
>>I've tried the Operations Navigator and found it slow and cumbersome.
>>Finding out that I cannot use it for common tasks means I can't see
>>any reason to use it.
>>
>> - Steve Cotes

<SNIP>

>Vernon said
>I agree that Operations Navigator lacks in a number of ways. As just one
>example, consider WRKSPLF on the 400. There you can out a 2 on any number
>of spooled files, enter the options you want to change ONE TIME on the
>command line, and the changes are applied to ALL selected items. On the
>other hand, if you have different changes to make per file, you press F4
>and you can do it one by one.
>
>In Operations Navigator, OTOH, you can make multiple selections, and you
>can right-click to get the popup where you take the change option—well,
>actually, the Properties option. But then you get a window for EACH file.
>You have no option of entering changes that apply to all. This is really a
>pain and makes ON unusable for common tasks, as far as I'm concerned. And I
>know it does not have to be this way. It looks like the designer of ON had
>never worked on the 400's "useless" green-screen interface.
>Boy, that felt good! I've wanted to yell about this for a long time!
>We need a 'Properties for All' option on the popup. PLEASE! Otherwise, I
>will _not_ use ON hardly at all.
>Vernon Hamberg


I have forwarded your remarks steve & vernon to a ON developer.  I 
will post any replies I get.
Any other things that need improving ?

John Carr
EdgeTech

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