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Dennis wrote:
I don't need rhetoric, I need concrete time-saving examples to
show my cohorts and my boss in order to procure that day off. Management
everywhere has the same thought - "if it ain't broke don't fix it" - and
nobody considers SEU "broke" since you can still program just fine with
it. Maybe if IBM forced the issue, but they won't.
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Dennis,
I've found that you can't get concrete time-saving examples easily like
that. Has my productivity improved since using WDSC. Yes. A few minutes
here, a few minutes there, having a complete reference available at my
fingertips instead of having to search through books for BIF definitions.
It's not something as simple as 'WDSC can save you ten minutes doing such
and such a function compared to SEU'. It just don't work that way. What
it does do, from my experience, is give you a full IDE to work with, with
an online instant manual, field definitions, file references, filters (oh
how I love the filters) that allow one to only see the sources that they
want to work on for a particular project, the ability to code in not just
RPG/CL, but Java, HTML, JSP, etc. So it's hard to sum up in a nutshell,
but overall the productivity increases by giving the developer more
resources at their fingertips so they spend more time coding and less time
looking for stuff. I hope that made sense.
Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
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709-576-8132
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