Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Hold on there pardner.

I'm using a mixture of both WDSCi and PDM for various reasons.
You say "you guys accepting broken as being "normal"..."
Does this mean that you are perpetually on the OS/400 release that IBM has
just stopped servicing? After all if IBM is no longer servicing that
release, no more PTF's are forthcoming, therefore its no longer broken.

The point I'm trying to make is that, yes the latest widget (WDSCi, OS/400
release, software etc.) is NOT 100% good/correct/non-error prone etc, but
it gives me MORE, and when this version is fixed (via PTF or whatever) it
will give me even more.



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces+alanshore=nbty.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/18/2006
03:17:12 PM:

My point was that people seem to accept broken code as
OK, cause that's the way it's always been.

I think we have come a long way in beginning to accept
this crap as far superior by accepting the errors.

The earlier version called Code400 should have been banned
from pc's in general, but as long as it was considerd
"leading edge", it was ok ????

Sorry...I think something is wrong with that thought process.

I have been keeping two or three source programs open at one
time for a great many years. I typically use three or four
screens while writing code. (3488 and SEU)

My complaint is with you guys accepting broken as being
"normal".... Forget the style of programming.




Jon Paris wrote:

Nope - I typically work with multiple sources at a time.  Moving back

and

forwards between the DDS for display/file and the main programs,
subprocedure sources, etc.  I can't remember the last time I worked on

a

single source.

I haven't "lost" anything since moving to V6 - and even on V5 it was a
rarity - and was usually fully recoverable from the workspace.

Is it sometimes frustrating - yes.  But it runs on Windows so it goes

with

the territory.  I also find iSeries Access, Word, Excel, IE, Firefox,

...

equally frustrating at times - but I still use them.

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