RE:Murali

[Jeff Markel <JMarkel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Murali!

Like most others, knowing more about your situation and frustration and
hopes and goals makes it easier to understand your postings to the group. I
would only add, that I think a lot of the antagonism you have generated was
caused by _the_appearance_ that you were doing very little on your own to
find the answers to your questions. If you truly have no access to an
iSeries, then it can be understood that you wouldn't be able to corroborate
things on your own. However, I got the impression from several of your posts
that you do have access to a programming environment (witness: you were
playing around with a subfile that wouldn't work, page up/page down etc.) In
that case, it is frustrating for those of us who have had to fight tooth and
nail and claw our way up the ladder using mostly our own resources to feel
that someone is just seeking the easy answers without making a legitimate
effort! Also, you can please forgive us if we are a little cynical when you
write that you copied a subfile program from a book, but it doesn't work,
why not? -- only for us to find out two posts later that you have been
modifying the original program because you thought it was too long!!!!!! (I
found that especially frustrating because so many of your previous posts
proved that you are really struggling to understand subfiles overall, so why
were you modifying the example program and how could you even properly judge
what the correct length of the program should be!)

Anyway, in the future you might find people are a little more sympathetic if
you present to them a problem in the context of what you have tried to solve
it already on your own. I.e., "I stepped through it in debug, I tried
several other methods, I looked on this website and checked this resource,
and, dagnabbit, I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong! Anyone have
any ideas to help?"

Don't be afraid to ask "dumb questions" (the only true "dumb questions" are
those that aren't asked, and I speak from experience I've posted some
beauties!) -- just make sure you've truly tried to find the answers on your
own, before you ask!

You'll find we're a pretty tolerant group, since we've all been in those
types of situations!

Regards,
Jeff