Re: [WDSCI-L] RE: WDSC With Aldon's A/CMS

[Scott Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are thinking about evaluating Aldon's CMS. Saw a webex demo of it today.  I 
am a big user of WDSC and am puzzled by this discussion.

Are you saying that from within WDSC using their plugin, you cannot compile a 
pgm and have it correctly include all its modules/srvpgms like it would in the 
green screen?  If so, that is a MAJOR point against them...

I have used Softlanding's TurnOver product and its plugins in the past.  Their 
plugins a fully integrated, usable, and functional from within WDSC.  They 
present little need for the developer to return to the green screen.  I am 
surprised to hear that the Aldon's plugins have 'problems'.

Thanks,
  Scott J

Samuel J Lennon wrote:

>    Without Aldon's Affiniti product the plugin appears largely useless to
>    me.  I was quite excited when it was announced.  With help from the
>    Support folk I got it to where I could check out objects, but there is no
>    way I could find to have it actually use A/CMS creation facilities and get
>    the error report back to WDSc.  Thus I gave up.  It doesn't appear to be a
>    well thought out implementation, or else it is desgined to encourage you
>    to buy Affiniti, or maybe both.
>
>    I wrote up a wish list of plugin features and Support said they'd pass it
>    on.  Don't know what good it will do.  The more people who call Support,
>    the better chance we'll have of getting a decent plugin.
>
>    After my password expired on the 400 I couldn't find any way to change it
>    in the plugin, so I disabled the plugin, since it wasn't any use to me
>    anyway.  That seemed to fix it termporarily, but now I'm back to having to
>    enter my password each day when I start WDSc.  Not sure if it is related.
>
>    Sam