RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

10 years? How many years has RPG IV been out and the mass of programmers
are still using MOVE and Z-ADD and multiplying 6.0 numeric date fields
to change date formats in programs...some that still use the cycle?
Yeah...WDSC adoption may take a while.

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> Subject: RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect
> From: directsystemsinc02 <directsystemsinc02@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, January 27, 2006 8:58 am
> To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for the enlightenment! It's still showing high on the score card for
> fix requirements and apparent user confusion. I suppose in ten years or so
> it might just settle down. :) :)
> 
> Jack Derham
> Direct Systems, Inc.
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> Jack,
> 
> I don't know much about Java, however I think it's something like this. 
> You fix one tight little part.  But to distribute it you put it into a jar 
> file (or some such animal) that contains the whole package and send that 
> out.  Nearest I can figure.  Once you get past the one big upgrade the 
> other upgrades are more manageable.
> 
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> 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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> From: rpg400-l-bounces+derhamj=bellsouth.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:48 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect
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> 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
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