Re: Fooling around with VRPG

Nah as a newly converted Java programmer use Eclipse Rich Client and RPGIV API programs and IBM is out of the picture. Safest bet in the long run.

Don N.

PS: You can also write your own Eclipse (WDSCi) plugins too.

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From: "Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 1:26 PM
To: "Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Fooling around with VRPG

EGL next?

On 11/2/07, Booth Martin wrote:

It sure was a fun product, and it presented data in ways that users had
never seen. I still remember one application that I did that ended up
showing a manger what had happened in her department since she'd taken
it over. :) Her first reaction was that the graph was wrong, the
second reaction was to ask for, and get, a substantial raise.



Jon Paris wrote:

On 2-Nov-07, at 3:42 PM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yes, sometimes you wonder at the decisions made from above.

The decision to not enhance VARPG was effectively made by its non-
users - not really by IBM. Despite being "free" it was ignored by
the vast majority despite being promoted at COMMON and other User
events for years. Sure there was more IBM could have done with it,
but they constantly updated its compiler support, added Java
generation capability, and more. Still people stayed away in their
thousands.

Pity - it was a fun product - but the market spoke!

Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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