WDSC HELP needed. Installation and Education

Thank you Mark for your reply.
I am encouraged by your direction to delve deeper into WDSC.
Perhaps because I am not skilled in JAVA I do not know how
to do certain things, at least, I now know where to go and
what I need to learn.
I value your suggestions on W2K and now I understand that it
is an issue that should be resolvable.

Maybe I should not have installed WDSC V4 but that is what IBM
supplied and I was not aware of V5, thanks for telling me.

No one is forcing me to use WDSC, however WDSC is widely touted
as the future direction and surely it is only prudent to try
to keep abreast of things. May I say that I ask for help as a
last resort and I would not post anything if I had no issues,
is that not the reason for the existance of wdsci-l.

Regards
Frank Kolmann

>date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:32:18 -0500
>from: "Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] WDSC HELP needed. Installation and Education
>
>
>Is someone forcing you to use WDSC?  If you want to use PDM and SEU then
do
>so.
>
>WDSC is using the native Windows tree and list controls.  Typing the first
>few characters of an item will position the list to that item.
>
>Unless your PC is a bottleneck than searches should be faster from WDSC
>than they are from PDM because your iSeries can process them faster from
>WDSC than PDM can in a 5250 session.  In all likelihood, both will be so
>fast as to be the same.
>
>MKS Implementer offers support for WDSC, and their Source Integrity
product
>would only be needed if you planned on writing Java/Web applications and
>wanted to version control the source.  You could also use the free CVS
>support that comes with WDSC.
>
>And finally the filters exist for performance.  Since the native iSeries
>file system is a flat structure, library -> objects -> members you get
very
>large lists that cannot be lazily loaded.  This is not a Java issue it a
>GUI and C/S issue.  There is no way to expand say a source file to show
>members in a tree control and not load all of the members.  For some
people
>that would be a performance intensive operation.  So WDSC came up with the
>concept of filters to let you define your subsets.  If you do not want to
>use it you can define one or two library filters for your libraries, use
>the table view and just drill down to your heart's content ala PDM.  There
>is even a convenient dialog to just jump to some specific locale without
>creating a filter.
>
>I have never experienced the problems you have with Win2K, at least I
>haven't noticed it.  I am not sure what you really mean by a 2-3 second
>delay.  Regardless, get a decently modern CPU, 512 MB of RAM and Win2K or
>XP and WDSC 5.1 performs fine.  Each release has gotten faster and that
>should continue with the 6.0 release whenever it comes out.
>
>Mark