RE: SEU vs. ?

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Maybe I'm not getting what your say, but isn't it more you want them to
> do is a version of their clients (CODE, WDSC, OPsNavegator, CA400, etc)
> that will run under any operating system. ie: Unix, Lynx... etc even the
> dreaded Windoz?  If so it would have nothing to do with the OS on the
> iSeries (other than it's interfaces thru API's and LIPI's), but
> everything to do with a version of the Client code that could run under
> brand-x OS on a PC
>

Yes.  That's more or less what I'm saying.

However, it's my opinion that the only reason they implemented this stuff
as PC software is because they couldn't do it on the iSeries, due to the
lack of a decent GUI interface.   One way that they could solve the
problem would be to make a GUI for th iSeries and run everthing there,
so that they don't have to rely on a 3rd party OS.

But, I'd also be happy if they made their client code work on multiple
operating systems.   I wouldn't limit it to just PCs, like you stated.

> They sort of use to have this with CA400 (PCS400) when they did a
> version for Win-3.x, Win-NT, DOS and OS2 (if I'm understanding you
> statements correctly), but yes it would make since to have a version
> that could run some other OS other than Windoz, but I'm sure it's a
> marketing thing (as well as a support issue).

Yes, they had the right idea there.  Though, those are basically all
versions of Windows (except for DOS).

The really and truly frustrating thing about it is that Eclipse, which is
the open source project that WDSC is based upon, is an open source project
that runs on virtually any operating system!!

I can run Eclipse on my FreeBSD desktop, no problem.  It runs great.
However, all of the iSeries and RPG stuff that IBM added to it are not
available.   They took the open/portable Eclipse environment and made it
only run on Windows for iSeries people.

You talk about "a marketing thing".   But, IBM's marketing department was
pushing Java until recently because it's cross-platform.   More recently,
they've been pushing Linux.   If the programmers had followed this
marketing strategy and made it work on Linux, or made it true Java so that
it's cross-platform, I wouldn't have a problem.

But they didn't.   They took an open platform that works everywhere, and
against the grain of what their marketing dept has been pushing at us,
they've forced you to use Windows with it.