Re: Free SEU (was Re: no subject)

Paul:

Your message reads like you're arguing that IBM should give it away so that you 
don't have to use your own machine to create FTP batch scripts that were used 
to dump a customer's AS/400. I'm not sure an argument coming from that 
direction would be very convincing for IBM. <g>

Tom Liotta

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Nelson" <p_nelson-NS@NS.inil.com>
> Subject: Re: (no subject)
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 05:57:32 -0500
>
> At the previously mentioned client site, their application vendor and IBM
> basically abandoned the customer, and now they're working on migrating to
> ORACLE. Their software vendor wouldn't make the source code available to
> them, and told them that PDM was unnecessary. With the source code and PDM,
> they could have come up with the mods they needed to keep them on the 400
> platform. It's not like they don't have the money to spend ($600 million
> construction company), it's just the way they were treated. Now ORACLE has a
> new customer.
>
> I'm using SEQUEL to create the data to pump from the 400 to the ORACLE
> system, but I had to use my own machine to create the FTP batch stuff to
> actually move the files.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if IBM threw in a CL creation and editing tool (more
> than CRTCLPGM) as part of the operating system? There is supposedly a
> project going on to introduce a new and improved version of CL. Come on,
> IBM, please GIVE AWAY an editing tool. Pretty please? :-))


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