RE: Parameter Procedure return value in the parm list (WDSCi)

Shannon,

What are the specs on your PC?

How about the VPN?

I use WDSc at home via VPN without trouble on a 850MHz Athlon with considerably 
less than 1GB of RAM.

My broadband connection is provided by Roadrunner with 5Mbs down and <512Kbs up.

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:16 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: Parameter Procedure return value in the parm list (WDSCi)
> 
> 
> I have to agree with this somewhat.  I really like the 
> features in WDSC. In
> fact, feature-wise...WDSC has SEU beat 9 ways to Sunday.
> 
> However... WDSC is too slow for me to be productive with.  I 
> don't know if
> it's because I work remotely from my office 99% of the time, 
> and working
> over a VPN is the bottleneck with WDSC or what.  What I do 
> know is that it
> can take upwards of five minutes to load a relatively small 
> source member
> into WDSC on my workstation.   If I use SEU and Client Access 
> 5250, I can
> open the source member, make all the changes and recompile 
> and STILL have
> time left over to read the newspaper before the source 
> finishes loading in
> WDSC.
> 
> I don't think it's my network, although I guess it could be. 
> But all my
> other network traffic for everything else is fine, 
> performance-wise. It is
> only WDSC that seems to be unbelievably slow.  
> 
> It's entirely possible that if I was working on site that I'd 
> have better
> response times with it, but since I don't...I seldom have the 
> patience to
> use WDSC for something I can do faster and easier in SEU.
> 
> Shannon ODonnell
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Christen, Duane J.
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:46 PM
> To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: RE: Parameter Procedure return value in the parm list (WDSCi)
> 
> Charles;
> 
> Not to start a holy war, but you're wrong. I have coded 
> "true" RPG IV using
> SEU for nearly 6 years, C and MI for much longer than that. 
> This year my new
> years resolution was to become fluent coding with WDSC. After 
> 4 months of
> considerable effort I can still code 2 to 3 times faster in 
> SEU than I can
> with WDSC, and I'm being conservative. I have had some 
> downtime the last two
> weeks and have forced myself to use ONLY WDSC, no green 
> screens, to develop
> some maintenance programs. It should have only taken a week, 
> I am not even
> half finished and tomorrow is the end of the second week.
> 
> Yes WDSC does some nice things but as with every Windblows 
> based software it
> is as intuitive as the U.S. tax code and as user friendly as 
> an electrified
> razor wire fence IMO.  
> 
> Duane Christen
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilt, Charles [mailto:CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:19 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Parameter Procedure return value in the parm list
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
> > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:00 PM
> > To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: RE: Parameter Procedure return value in the parm list
> > 
> > 
> > Charles,
> > 
> > I realize that the prototype tells you all you need to know, 
> > but ideally
> > I'd like the code to tell me that.  Such as, in your example...
> >     CalcTax( orderAmt : taxAmt ); 
> > ... The amount being changed here is not explicit.  As a 
> programmer I
> > now need to page up or whatever to find the prototype to see which
> > field, if any, is being changed.  This is what I'd like to 
> get around
> > (w/o writing comments).
> 
> Ah, but if you're using WDSC, then the outline view shows you 
> which params
> are VALUE or CONST.  No need to page the source itself up.
> 
> My personal mantra...if you're trying to use SEU to do true RPG IV
> programming...you're wrong.
> Two main reasons:
> 1) The usefulness of the outline view
> 2) How easy "Auto-Complete" aka "Code Assist" makes it to use 
> longer names.
> 
> 
> 
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