I get the concept of the whole iseries developer roadmap thing. And given
that plan, I can see why they're letting 5250 development tools languish.
But I don't think they've stopped to consider that the plan might be ill
conceived, and so as they march on, they look back confused, wondering why
not everyone is following them.
Perhaps it would have been better to enhance the green screen functionality
in a direction that allowed a better transition into GUI eventually. I
liked the potential I saw in panel group logic, but it never developed
futher.
"Dave Shaw"
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Buck,
In regard to no RPG enhancements, there has been some. Highlighting a
/copy line and having the option to open the source. Converting code to
free-format. I don't know how long they've been there.
Those were in WDSCi 6.x; might have been in 5, too, but I don't remember.
If IBM really wants to get people using WDSCi to spend money to get RDi, it
sure would be nice if they'd come through with some improvements to make it
worth our while. How long have we been waiting for them to replace the
CODE
display and print designer, and they're still not ready? I realize that
the
web development stuff like EGL and so forth is the direction they want us
to
go in, but it would be a whole lot easier to sell to management if they'd
show at least a little interest in supporting what we're working with now.
I mean, it doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling to hear that the screen
designer is late because 'the' resource (singular) working on it was
diverted to a higher-priority project. Oh, well.
Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries
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