Re: Free SEU (was Re: no subject) -- MIDRANGE-L

No, the point was that if they had been able to make some mods to the 400
software, perhaps the slick ORACLE salesman wouldn't have gotten his foot in
the door.

BTW, they gave me some documentation on the ORACLE Corp. Payroll
application, and you folks would not believe what a kludge their database
design looks like. Huge amounts of redundant data. Relational my a$$. Long
live DB2/400!!!!

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Liotta" <thomas@inorbit.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: 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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