RE: Lansa/MRC Users

Hello Jeff, 

Thanks for the feedback.

I remember Synon as well. The Lansa model seems somewhat similar, however 
hopefully Lansa won't get relegated to the unwanted toy basement of 
Computer Associates as Synon was :-)

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message: 2
date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:40:12 +0100 
from: Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Lansa/MRC Users

I have used MRC, though that was several years ago.

My criticism then, though may not be relevant now, was that it was 
marketed
as a management reporting tool.
It was so complex, probably because it was so powerful, that we had an
experienced analyst-programmer working on it almost full-time. The 
knowledge
of the structure of DB2/400 was a key factor in getting to grips with it,
and being a programmer reduced quite a steep learning curve.

The internal auditors used it, but insisted on Query/400 to validate their
results!

I was once, for my sins, a Lansa Administrator - I never had to create
programs with it.  It was quite easy to manage, configure etc.  I had
previously worked in a Synon shop, and the levels of praise and complaint
among the developers was about the same.