Re: WRKDBF

Joe Pluta wrote:

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.

All I know is that in the version I'm looking at on a customer box, "V10.10.03," I have to bring up an F4 window to position by key, and then confirm that I want to reposition (clunky), and I've seen it slip vertically when I'm attempting to page horizontally (slightly unstable), and crash completely if I try to go to a single-record view on a file with very large records (very unstable). I've also found that attempting to hide the columns I don't care about, in order to fit the ones I'm interested in on a single screen, works erratically at best.