RE: OS/400 command set

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Michael Naughton
>
> I think one reason you often seem like a lone voice is that after you're
> done a lot of the rest of us don't feel there's much more to say (other
> than clogging the list with lots of "me too" messages).

Mike (and others who have offered support), I appreciate the words.  I guess
I get a little frustrated at times.  Especially when last week I was
teaching client/server and server/client architectures at iSeries DevCon,
and people were completely enthusiastic about how easy it was to create JSPs
that talk to their RPG programs, thus marrying the two technologies without
any expensive middleware.  I think I made real inroads into removing the
mystique surrounding web deployment - people were creating both thick and
thin client apps in an hour and a half without using anything but the
iSeries, a text editor and good old VAJ.  They had cut through the hype and
begun to believe in the machine.  And then I come back here to the list and
find myself defending, of all things, OS/400 command syntax.  It's
exasperating.


> I also think it would help if the system's manufacturer acted as if it
> agreed with you. . . .

Yeah, that's a different issue, and one I wish I knew how to address,
although there seems to be at least some movement in the right direction.
Time will tell if it's too little too late.

Joe