Re: WRKDBF

James Lampert wrote:

Could somebody please explain why it is that so many people are so attached to WRKDBF, and so upset over its demise? I've had to use it on one or two customer boxes that don't have QuestView, and I find it so clunky and unstable as to be barely usable.

Sure, it's open source freeware, but so are OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, and GIMP, and none of them are clunky or unstable.

I've used WRKDBF for years (decades it seems) and I never considered it either clunky or unstable. Given the fact that it was written by one guy in his free time (and I believe it started from a code generator), it's incredibly powerful. I think comparing that to Thunderbird and the hundreds of developers and thousands (millions?) of users is quite the stretch.

The iSeries community owes a huge debt to Bill Reger, and I only wish he had decided to bring the tool into the next generation of applications.

Joe

P.S. Your workstation clock is still an hour ahead.