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I certainly don't want to argue that OPM is better than ILE. Clearly ILE offers advantages. Our managers just don't see at this time how the bumps and extra effort of making the transition would be outweighed by the benefits offered (within the context of demands on our shop). Beta was technologically superior to VHS. VHS lived on because it was good enough and had momentum. Being good enough and having momentum are why VHS still lives on in rental stores today. The writing's on the wall for VHS, but people don't need to scrap their VHS players just yet. I personally have no problem going with ILE. But then, I know RPG and Java in addition to COBOL, and I enjoy learning new technologies in general (e.g., WDSCi). Thanks, Kelly -----Original Message----- From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jon Paris Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:55 PM To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries Subject: RE: [WDSCI-L] How to update COBOL outline On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:24:16 -0600, Kelly Cookson wrote > Our shop has literally thousands of programs ..... The managerial position is basically not to disrupt what is working well for us. My first thought is why presume it would be disruptive ??? Change = disruption is often followed followed by "status quo = stagnation = Microsoft "solution" waiting to happen If this does not apply to your company I apologize - but I'm a little jaundiced right now. I'm currently working with the fourth company in a row that thought RPG/400 was "good enough" for too many years. As a result they are now finding that hordes of Java and .Net programmers are wiping out their RPG programming jobs and recoding all the business logic because they had not isolated their business processes and could not respond fast enough to changing business needs.... Jon Paris Partner400 www.Partner400.com Regards > We do use ILE COBOLon rare occasions--for example using an API to generate > random numbers for a drug testing system. It's even possible we may > gradually migrate to ILE COBOL, but I'm not holding my breath... :) > > Thanks, > Kelly > > -----Original Message----- > From: wdsci-l-bounces+kcookson=dotfoods.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces+kcookson=dotfoods.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf > Of Jon Paris Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:11 PM To: Websphere > Development Studio Client for iSeries Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] How to > update COBOL outline > > Then I guess you must be using OPM COBOL. > > Sorry I just kinda assume that everyone is using the latest > compiler. Bad assumption I know but ILE COBOL has been out about 7 > years now and I haven't > > used OPM COBOL since! > > There's a lot of good stuff in ILE COBOL. For me it is like RPG/400 > vs RPG IV - it is no contest. ILE COBOL is a superset of COBOL/400 > so I use it for > > all the COBOL stuff I do. > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:50:21 -0500, MichaelQuigley wrote > > That's my problem. There is no 'Refresh button' in the outline > > view for COBOL. Michael Quigley Systems-Analyst The Way > International > > Jon Paris > Partner400 > www.Partner400.com > _______________________________________________ > This is the Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (WDSCI- > L) mailing list To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l or email: WDSCI-L- > request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review > the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l. _______________________________________________ > This is the Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (WDSCI- > L) mailing list To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l or email: WDSCI-L- > request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review > the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (WDSCI-L) mailing list To post a message email: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/wdsci-l or email: WDSCI-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l.
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