RE: User profile creation

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John

At 10:29 PM 5/3/1998 -0400, you wrote:
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>RE:    RE: User profile creation
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>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
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>>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
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>I have forwarded your remarks steve & vernon to a ON developer.  I 
>will post any replies I get.
>Any other things that need improving ?

Since it seems there's a chance someone will listen, I'll look at ON some
more. There _are_ parts I do like, generally. The licensed product stuff is
pretty neat. And I think the AFP Viewer relationship shows promise.
(Regarding AFP Viewer, it's obvious its origins are in OS/2, at least to
me. So many apps that started out in OS/2 have this real computer-nerdish
quality to them—not the world's friendliest interfaces, IMO—OK, start
throwing the bricks, Chris Rehm, I'm ducking!)

My desire is that we not lose _good_ things while we move to a new
paradigm. Boy, this sounds familiar, as in losing COPIES when using LPR
(SNDTCPSPLF), eh?

Anyway, thanks for your efforts.

Cheers


P.S. One thing—do you know if there's a chance of retrofitting things to
v3r2? We, for one, are a shop with 13 400's, 3 of which are v3r7 or later.
The other 10 can't benefit from the extra neat stuff, like users, security,
etc. This is another thing that makes ON essentially useless for me.

Thanks again

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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