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  3. March 2007

Re: Advanced vs. Standard

How scientific are these opinionated numbers?
Not one whit. It's an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. I only wanted to say that there are indeed a small number of people on this list who deeply desire 5250 development tooling in SE, but there simply won't be a line of people out the door waiting to sound off about it at COMMON. 

Unless we make such a group.
I think a lot more developers are at 
> least trying WDSC than we think.
I like to hope that's true, but it doesn't help much unless every WDSCi user tells OFFICIAL IBM: 

a) about their experience
  1) installing
  2) editing 5250 apps
  3) adhering to the road map
b) what they think about this AE snafu
c) what they want from an IDE in detail.
   'Anything but this' hardly helps.
I'm not badmouthing the listers here, only saying that I'm reasonably sure that there's only a tiny fraction of RPG programmers who use WDSCi. How many times have we seen a post that went something like 'We all use WDSCi and have never experienced any of the problems you guys are posting about'? The more typical note is that 'I am the only WDSCi user of 7 developers and the others are not interested in the least.'
The whole point is that there simply isn't a groundswell of programmers eager to go tell IBM what they think, either in an email to George (or David Slater, if he's still there) or at Soundoff. I hope I'm wrong, and we'll see after Soundoff.
Further, it follows that if OFFICIAL IBM doesn't hear what we think, they can't very well act on it. It's like grumping about the ice cream selection to the cashier and not telling the store manager. He's sympathetic, but he's not likely to report every complaint he heard to the manager.
Maybe another good measure would be how 
> many people download updates to WDSC

- IBM would have those numbers.


That would be a very interesting number to see.

  --buck

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