RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch -- MIDRANGE-L

All posturing aside....

If you expect WDSC to speed up exactly what you do today with SEU I
don't think it will.  This is not a slam on WDSC - I mean if you do
exactly what you do today you might just end up disappointed.

If on the other hand you use WDSC and the added functionality you might
end up more productive and more happy than you are today.  This is not
to say that PDM or SEU aren't great tools it just means that there are
limits.

Not that this is the case but I've had programmers and end users not
adopt something new because they tended to look at the exceptions and
them only.  If 80 processes are better and 20 are worse what should you
do?  Again, that may not be an accurate representation of WDSC vs. SEU
but I would keep it in mind - think big picture, think about how you can
do things differently.  If you do and are still disappointed then so be
it.  Most of us don't advocate change for change's sake.  We are on the
wrong platform for that.....

Michael Crump
 
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:11 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

My complaint is with you guys accepting broken as being "normal"....

Forget the style of programming.

I don't accept "broken" software - But I am realistic enough to know
that as
long as it runs on Windows, there is nothing that IBM do that will
_ever_
make it 100% bullet proof.  I have way more failures with iSeries Access
than with WDSC.

So given that I have a choice - do I work with it and help IBM to make
it
better? While getting at least a 75% productivity boost?  Or do I refuse
to
use it until it is perfect and suffer lower productivity with SEU in the
meantime?

To me it is a no brainer - I do not have enough patience to work with
SEU -
no matter how many 5250 sessions I have open at a time.

Life is to short to use SEU.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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