RE: WRKDBF

Hi Jim

Sure I am using SQL for adhoc inquiry and mass updates, couldn't live
without SQL.

But WRKDBF has its strength in being a native app. accessible from every
session
including old real green screen (or was it grey *S*), so even if you don't
have
FROG or other nice utils on your PC, you are able to dig with WRKDBF (and of
course SQL).

Power users with no knowledge to SQL could use WRKDBF to fix some recs if
necessary,
and a typo in SQL update could do more harm than a single change rec in
WRKDBF.

So coexistence of SQL, FROG and WRKBDF is a very nice opportunity.

So where is Bill ? *S*

Brgds

Helge


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Steil
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: WRKDBF


I'm curious about why people use tools like WRKDBF, DBU and such when
SQL is available to them. I use a free tool call FROG to fix up or look
into all my data problems. Its free, doesn't require the SQL product or
an ODBC connection and works great. I'm not knocking those products,
they definitely have a devoted following. But, for me, SQL has always
been the way to get at data and make changes when necessary.

-Jim

Helge Bichel wrote:

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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