RE: Re[2]: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:06 PM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Is this a guarantee the NetWolf is bug free or your money back?

Hey, that's a good one.  As a programmer, I just can't resist this one.
Gee, yes, Synapse code is totally bug free ;-)....who can't make that
claim?  I've personally coded stuff that has worked for years (decades)
only to find that one of my confounded users found a way to break by
pristine, primo code.  Damn!  How do they do that?

However, to be real, I can say that the engineers at Synapse seem to have a
knack at producing quality code as evidenced by their track record over the
last 19 plus years.  They have been the big machine producing 5250 products
for many of the big names including Netsoft, Attachmate, Novell, Micro
Integration, Emerald, Andrew, Connectronnix, etc.  They are also real
people dealing with real problems.  They are available, as many Synapse
customers have discovered, to respond to issues that come up from time to
time.  I have seen them learn about, dig, and resolve tough issues in
unbelievably short periods -- certainly before you have got Level I, II,
and III to be able to spell your name and company.

Watch for Synapse's new TCP/IP based NetWolf product for AS/400's.

Jerry

>
>Eric Kempter
>CommAir Mechanical Services, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Jerome Draper [SMTP:jdraper@wco.com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:29 AM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: Re[2]: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480 
>
>Synapse has released a new CA/400 killer app called NetWolf.  Unlike
>CA/400, it does not gobble up your hard drive with bloated, unnecessary
>software that starts unnecessarily when you don't know about it.  Neither
>does it freeze up, lock up, or drop out.  It's simple and it works on all
>version of Windows (3.11, 95, 98, and NT).
>
>Synapse always test their software before releasing it because the
>engineers run the company.  They have a strong track record in this
>business dating back to the first emulator ever built in the early 1980's.  
>
>IBM has divided CA/400 into two discrete packages.  One part is bundled
>with OS/400 and thus available at no additional cost beyond OS/400.  The
>other part is the one most used and the one most complained about (see
>below).  It costs money on a per seat basis ($275 purchase, $55. upgrade)
>as well as an annual service fee.  
>
>For all the problems CA/400 causes there must be a better way and IMHO
>Synapse NetWolf is it.
>
>(Claimer:  I sell, support, use, and enjoy Synapse products.)
>
>Jerry Draper
>
>
>At 09:17 AM 10/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>     IBM CA team must be using the Microsoft method: Release beta code 
>>     as if it were fully tested and then wait for US to tell them where 
>>     they $#@$#& up! 
>>     
>>     Eric DeLong
>>
>>
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>>Subject: Re: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480 
>>Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INET_WACO
>>Date:    10/13/98 4:42 PM
>>
>>
>>I'm not going to roll it out to my users with this problem.  In fact, they 
>>are all still on V3R1M2 at a fairly old, reasonably stable pack level,
since 
>>I don't like any of the newer packs for V3R1M2 or V3R1M3.  I am getting
very 
>>frustrated that IBM just can't seem to get PC5250 to work CORRECTLY before 
>>releasing a service pack.  Don't they test the darned thing?
>>     
>>Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW - 
>>Bubba Makes Wheels :)
>>The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently 
>>persuasive...
>>     
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gary Lehman <Gary_Lehman@mail.mchcp.org>
>>To: 'MIDRANGE-Lmidrangecom' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> 
>>Date: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 9:51 AM
>>Subject: RE: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480
>>     
>>     
>>>I have not yet applied the new Service Pack.  Is it worth it with this 
>>>problem?
>>>
>>>Gary Lehman
>>>Programmer Analyst II
>>>Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan 
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dave Shaw [mailto:dshaw1@InfoAve.Net] 
>>>Sent: Monday, October 12, 1998 2:41 PM
>>>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>>>Subject: Re: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480 
>>>
>>>
>>>Neil:
>>>
>>>Yep, it appears to be the same code level as SF49654 for V3R1M2, which had 
>>>that problem reported months ago.  I can't imagine why they released 
>>another
>>>service pack with the same problem.  Bloody annoying, ain't it? 
>>>
>>>Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from
BMW - 
>>>Bubba Makes Wheels :)
>>>The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently 
>>>persuasive...
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Neil Palmer <NeilP@DPSlink.com>
>>>To: 'Midrange-L' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> 
>>>Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 11:44 AM
>>>Subject: CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 - Service Pack SF50480 
>>>
>>>
>>>>Has anyone else with CA/400 Win95/NT V3R1M3 installed Service Pack 
>>>>SF50480, and noticed that the keyboard buffering in PC5250 sessions 
>>>>appears to be TOTALLY SCREWED UP !  (Drops miscellaneous characters 
>>>>from buffered commands, ignores occasional Fx keys, etc. etc).  ? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Neil Palmer         DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd. 
>>>>                                             AS/400~~~~~ 
>>>>Thornhill, Ontario,  Canada    ___________          ___  ~ 
>>>>Phone: (905) 731-9000  x238   |OOOOOOOOOO| ________  o|__||= 
>>>>Cell.: (416) 565-1682  x238   |__________|_|______|_|______) 
>>>>Fax:   (905) 731-9202          oo      oo   oo  oo   OOOo=o\ 
>>>>mailto:NeilP@DPSlink.com    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>http://www.DPSlink.com        AS/400  The Ultimate Business Server 
>>>>
>>>>
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>Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
>Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
>Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
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Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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