RE: One way PDM towers over WDSC

 >> I think there are always going to be things, like the ones you
mentioned, that are going to seem more natural to those of us with extensive
5250 experience.

I don't think that "natural" comes into it Mark.  The things that Vern has
pointed out are "natural" in Windows, and I suspect in Linux desktops too
although I am not familiar enough to judge.  While I love many of the things
about WDSc, I just wish that the person who did the design for the new
options showed some sign of having at least _looked_ at what people did with
PDM.  I expected (reasonably I think ) that where it made sense WDSc would
be a superset of PDM.  It isn't - there are many things you can't really do
without digging into Java.  The fact that the environment is extensible is
great, but why not though Rexx so that those of us who have invested in CODE
can get more immediate benefit.  Why not bring in the PDM user defined
options notion the way CPO did?  Why do we have to reinvent the wheel to
replace functionality that we already have in both PDM and CPO?

I just hate having to take two steps backwards before I can move forwards
again.

Jon Paris
Partner400
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