RE: how we will program in the future

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta

| Right now one of
| two identically installed machines takes ten times as long to access my
| IFS as the other.  And there's no way to determine why.  At least if
| something goes gonzo on my iSeries, I can determine the problem and
| correct it.

Imo, the value of this is SEVERELY underestimated.  The 400 cranks out
performance Whilst tracking the details on jobs so that you Can do a
post-mortem on an app that craters (system or user).  Wish error messages
were More like they used-ta be in 38 days, rather than say (like a lot do):
"Recovery:  Contact your system administrator." or "Contact the person in
charge of program maintenance" which I've also seen.

That don't help a 1-person shop a whole lot.