RE: OpsNav upgrade -- MIDRANGE-L

While us technical people find the speed of the 5250 interface faster, 
iSeries Navigator isn't bad.  IBM has taken numerous beatings in the past 
to improve speed, reliability, speed, functionality and speed.  They are 
trying.  Granted some are chanting the Java Mantra and want this running 
on something other than Wintel, but I bet IBM's real cautious after the 
beatings they took on speed.

Just this week I had to show a "Director of Strategic Business" iSeries 
Navigator for a project we are working on.  He was quite impressed.  It's 
amazing how much things have changed.  When I hired on in 1986 he was our 
former DP Manager who was on medical leave for a quintuple bypass.  (I got 
his desk.  Which, if you saw our office at the time sure wasn't saying 
much.)

The Database Navigator is pretty for seeing ERD's.  Click on a database 
and it will show you all the children and parent databases, and all that 
neat stuff (providing you are using triggers and referential integrity). 
Worthless for packages like BPCS which doesn't even care if you have 
duplicate item numbers in the item master, (unless you follow the 5250 
mantra of course).  And other packages that decided that referential 
integrity was better handled by each individual program, if handled at 
all.

Will also show you stored procedures associated with a library.  Which is 
a pretty neat trick being as the tag that says 'this is a stored 
procedure' is not an object in the library - it's a record in the system 
cross reference tables.  I think it will even display UDF's.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: Joe Pluta
>
> <laughing>  Vern, I'm going to try selective setup, which indeed removes
> EZ-Setup when you remove Operations Console.  Evidently EZ-Setup
> is ONLY for
> Operations Console, nothing else.  Okay, I can live with that.
> If this goes
> well, I will next try upgrading my other workstation.

Wow.  It worked.  Not only that, but I started messing around with the
Database (SQL) stuff, and I am very impressed.  OpsNav's SQL capabilities
(especially with the ability to run queries and check their performance 
and
all that good stuff) are really nice.  It's a powerful tool, now and it's
actually becoming quite helpful in my development.

Kudos to the OpsNav folks.  I may have to write about this puppy in my 
next
column.  Unfortunately, the April column is full.

Joe

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