Re: Move S/36 to AS/400

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Right, Work Station Utility.

It was sort of OCL, RPG, and SDA all rolled into one.  A whole application
could be rolled up into one WSU program and be thousands of lines long.  
A simple screen program was easily 2,000 lines long.  It offered power and
user-ease but 2 or 3 WSU programs could be a programmer's whole career. 
Because they worked so well they were rarely replaced with new code so
they lay out there still as landmines. 

 

In <377CBAE1.6BA71DE@datadesigninc.com>, on 07/02/99 
   at 08:13 AM, nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com> said:

>>      Um, what are WSU programs and why are they trouble?

>work statation utility (i think) some brainchild of the early system 36
>days.  it wasn't used a lot, and didn't go over to the as/400.  so
>anything written in wsu had to be redone.

>i used it - once - and thought it was too limiting.  but an ibm package
>(dmas i believe) was written heavily in it.

>nj
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