RE: WRKDBF

WRKDBF is a tool I won't miss when upgrading to V6.R1.
It has saved lot of time when investigating files and make record changes
'behind the scene'.
Going back to DFU is like walking back to stoneage.

How can we get Bill Reger's support for being able to continue WRKDBF at
V6.R1.

Thanks Bill.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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.
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