Re: Presentation on the advantages of WDSCi

Rob,

I've asked to download some of the PDF's from the library at IBM, and will 
have a look at them (FTP is a big no-no for regular people like me here).

As for training, I fear that none of the people you mention would be 
willing to hop on a flight to Belgium for a quick presentation on WDSCi 
(Joe? I'd buy you a VERY big cold beer if you did <vbg>)

The tutorials are nice, but geared very much towards the web & java side 
of the product: there is 1 (one) tutorial in 'Do and learn' that talks 
about RPG development.

As we are almost exclusively developing "regular" RPG(LE) programs, which 
are then GUI-ized through a product called AxWare, the tutorials are not 
really relevant at this time.

COMMON in Belgium is rather small scale, and I have yet to see a seminar 
related to WDSCi.  And I don't think IBM does a tech conference over here, 
or even in Europe for that matter.

So I guess I'll have to whip up a presentation of my own.

Thanks anyway.

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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In a perfect world you would do the following:  Generate excitement, 
train, exclusively implement.

Generate Excitement
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/
- Success stories
- You all get new, beefier, PC's!

Training
- We used Jon Paris, on site, for a few days (but that was pre-lpex days)
- Joe Pluta does this also
- See also Susan Gantner
- COMMON
- IBM Technical conference
- http://www.statususer.org/statususer/html/20060510.html
- A local BP had a training lab that sponsored a full day on WDSC from an 
iSeries RPG perspective.  Could have used a little more time as I ran 
short on debugger experience.  eweingartner at shambaugh dot com
- Tutorials in the product itself
- Books:
- - http://store.midrange.com/
- - 
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/library/iSeriesJavaAppDev.html

Don't get cheap here.  Dropping a grand or two on onsite training is cheap 

compared to the lost productivity, or worse, failed installation.

Exclusively implement
- This may require management approval.  But I, and others, strongly 
suggest that you secure (or save off and delete) the following commands 
for the first month:  STRSEU, STRSDA, STRPDM, WRKLIBPDM, WRKOBJPDM, 
WRKMBRPDM, and whatever GO PROGRAM option 1 does.  Failure to do so will 
result in many developers pissing on management, and on all the money 
invested, by refusing to at least give the new environment a try until 
they get over their fear of change.  "Change?  That's for users!  Not for 
me!"

Rob Berendt