Re: question on survey question

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I need to see your possible answers and don't really see where
your "thinking" is going to make the question clearer. If you expect
a yes or no, the question is fine, but I doubt you will have gained
any useful insight. Are you actually trying to sway opinion by asking
a question (push-polling) here? If you are, I would be more direct,
something like:

"In your development environment is it important for IBM to
support prior releases, and if so how far back should IBM support?"

The iSeries-toolkit Web site (http://www.iseries-toolkit.org) supports

releases back to V4R4 directly, and provides a build program that will

recompile usefully back to V3R2. That is the advantage of open
source. People can build what their system supports. The V4R4
download is the most popular (about 40%)  with the remainder split
between the V4R5 and V5R1 downloads.

David Morris


>>> cozzi@rpgiv.com 02/19/02 08:28AM >>>
In next week's Midrange Developer, my 10-second survey is going to be
something like this:

Should IBM be required to base all future versions of the compilers on
V5R1, thus allowing future code to be compiled as TGTRLS(*V5R1M0)?


My question to you all is this:
Is this a viable question, and is it clear enough?