RE: RLU - Report Layout Utility

[Dan <dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- SHARON ROGERS <SHARON.ROGERS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   Since I am self-taught
> writing printer files in DDS, I was hoping that RLU was a little easier
> to use.  

Not by much.  In fact, I have found RLU to be somewhat dangerous to use.  As 
just one example, I
have been burned in the past inserting a line within an existing record and RLU 
took the liberty
to create two new records in the process!  (One was the inserted line, and the 
second was the part
of the record before the line insertion.)  In a previous life, I had taken to 
creating a backup
copy of the source before I edit it with RLU.

RLU is totally counter-intuitive.  I used to wonder what in the world the IBM 
developers were
smoking when they put that kludge on.  I equate it with the one-line SEU editor 
in the S/34/36
varieties.

Especially once you see how the third-party product RDA works almost exactly 
the same as SDA, you
really have to wonder where IBM's AS/400 utility development brain trust was.

My totally unbiased opinion.  <g>

- Dan

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