Re: V5 availability -- MIDRANGE-L

Funny, though, if you think about it... each of the independant (fill in the
blank) __series boxes, even though they are e-servers, have a DIFFERENT
scripting language on each...

and we're supposed to be appathetic? (apathetic?) (pathetic?)

maybe REXX has a purpose....


naw!    never mind!


but Charly... tell us how you really feel....  <VBG>

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: Charly Jones <charly301@hotmail.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: V5 availability


>Rick,
>
>I have no __official__ information.  I was at a presentation
>yesterday where Joel Knudson from IBM Omaha said several times
>that the announcement would probably be in April with delivery
>in May.  He gave out some very interesting tidbits and seemed
>to have an inside track on what is coming.
>
>When he presented the IBM line about GUI, GUI, GUI, everything
>will be GUI, I asked if IBM had any plans to provide a "scripting
>language" for the e(logo)Server iSeries Model 38 + 400 GUI.  I understand
>how cool it is to right click on a little gizmo
>after you have double clicked on some other little gizmo
>after opening up a few windows and mucking around a little and then
>"voila!" you can change this parameter to such and so...  But
>what if I need to make that same change to 150 user profiles or
>1500 physical files?  Wouldn't it be cool if there was some
>notation or language that I could program to do it for me?  Call
>it CL, or OCL, or JCL, or ILE CL, or anything else you want to
>call it, but it sure seems to me that a scripting language is
>necessary to be able to do things more than a few times without
>the "video game" experience.  A lot of people like playing
>video games, but I am not that fond of them when I have work to do.
>I think abandoning CL is a crime.  Every little thing that
>needs to be done should be doable through CL.  Then the scripting
>language for the GUI could __be__ CL.  Turn on the recorder, do
>something, turn off the recorder, and you have a "script" that
>can be played back, or programmed to do something similar
>many times...
>
>... stepping gingerly down off of my soapbox...
>
>Joel said he wasn't aware of any scripting language for the GUI.
>
>He was trying hard to convince the audience that we should be
>"apathetic" (his word, not mine) about the platform.  We have
>cool technology, and a great operating system, but if the
>work gets done on a box, any box, who cares?  He didn't say
>it, but he works in the "Americas iSeries Brand" department of IBM,
>and I think maybe I was being prepped for a future session where
>I will be told that the important thing is that my application is
>running on an IBM e(logo)Server.  Period.  I should be "apathetic"
>to the iseries part of the e(logo)Server iSeries Model 38 + 400
>naming nonsense.  I remain not very apathetic about the platform.
>Never have been.
>
>... aannnd I step gingerly down again...
>
>>From: Rick Williams <rickw@aspersoft.com>
>>
>>Has IBM let it be known when OS/400 V5 will be available for general
>>distribution?
>>
>>Rick Williams
>>
>
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