RE: V6R1 Info

Another fallacious reasoning thread coupled with plenty of straw mans is
evidently brewing....

Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:37 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: V6R1 Info

Can you two get a room or something?

What is a pension? Your comments have nothing to do with the V6R1 Info
thread.

Paul Nelson
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Cell 708-670-6978
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:33 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: V6R1 Info

On Jan 30, 2008 8:25 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

what matters is if my opinion is valid or not. In every shop ( except

one
)

I have worked in the last few years, service programs and procedures

have

been rarely used. I think it is because programs and service programs

dont

How many of these shops were 'forward-thinking'? i.E. abandoned 5250
or planning to do so in short or mid-term, used current software
technology, etc.?

I know many System i developers that cling to 5250 and their Twinax
screens. These just want to catch their pension when they're finally
old enough. You can't expect that kind of people to improve their
development environment, even if ILE RPG was the best programming
environment ever, the IDE automatically figuring out what exactly the
customer needed, etc. ;)