Re: SEU vs. ?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Booth, I'll grant you that they can make the install smoother.

However I will not grant you that at least SEU works every time.  For two 
reasons:
- it doesn't, as others have pointed out in various ways
- Hey, a stone knife will cut wood, but I'd rather have a circular saw to 
get through plywood.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 





"Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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So, not even one person can do the installs without troubles? 
 
How can IBM ever expect their user base to increase when not even the
experts can get it right without help?  Pity the newbie that's heard about
the iSeries and wants to dabble a bit.   Sadly s/he won't make that 
mistake
again. 
 
Worse yet, pity the experienced programmer that has finally gotten
permission from his boss to try the new stuff and a week later still has
nothing useful to show that boss.  Neither he nor the boss will make that
mistake again.  SEU is lot of things, but first and foremost it works 
every
single time.
 
 This is an area where IBM would do well to learn from Microsoft.  Those
people seem to understand that their own employees are not typical of all
users.  They step outside the corporate structure for their testing and
development. 
 
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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:13:02 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SEU vs. ?
 
>> The only person I know who gets his WDSc installed properly is Jon
Paris, but I suspect he has someone at IBM install it for him or perhaps
they give him a special build that avoids the IBM installation routines.
<vbg>.
 
I wish!
 
If you look at my postings on other lists Bob you'll see I have more than 
my
fair share of grief with installs. WDSC V5 was pretty clean for me though 
-
once I got a machine big enough!
 
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com

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