RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

I know that WDSC is the wave or craze of the future but I have been keeping
score on the number of problem issues that have been posted on this list and
they certainly seem excessive. I like new toys as much as the next person
maybe even more but WDSC just feels like a pig in a tutu. When I loaded 6.0
I thought that was a never ending task but then I immediately had to upgrade
it and that was a task forever plus.  

We all bitch at MS for their software glitches but at least then seem to
have solved the problems of software distribution. The upgrades from IBM
today seem to be as bad as the old s/38 upgrades from the PID in Sawmill
County.
Why can't they replace they current approach of "BIG" upgrades at a
relatively low frequency to one of "small" upgrades at a higher frequency.
Maybe the basic design has a flaw of very large granularity and this from a
company that has been breaching modularity even since ILE hit the street. I
guess some of the people in the church don't listen to the sermons.

OK, I have vented and feel better!

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

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Subject: RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

It sounds like two issues:
- Source member mangled beyond compilability
- Reference to a previously undefined variable
- /free stuff

Originally I thought it was believed that the source was mangled BECAUSE 
of the conversion to /free.  Evidently it is a separate issue.  I have 
seen some other posts on obscure member definition issues that may be 
cleared up.  Maybe they'll work for you.

Now, James, I am not saying this to be a stickler.  But I think if you do 
take it to the WDSC list, or open a pmr with IBM, you'll get a better 
response from IBM.  IBMers who care about WDSC do monitor that list rather 
faithfully.

I still think that, at least part of, it has to deal with something done 
by someone who doesn't want to 'fess up to it.

Rob Berendt