Buck, I see your frustration, but we work in a technology industry. If you
have associates that are not willing to embrace technology they should be
put out to pasture. When IBM discontinues support for DDS and SEU they need
to see the writing on the wall and get on board.
My 2 cents,
jon
date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:57:09 -0500
from: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Resistance to using RDi
I don't know how I'd feel about management dictating my choice of editor. A
previous boss wanted to force the team into RDi, and I actively argued
against that. Should I re-evaluate my thinking?
Is there a real-life example of rolling out RDi to a team who must be forced
to use it? My notion of success is that they become almost immediately
enamoured of RDi and constantly walk past my desk to shower me with
adulation for finally bringing them to the promised land.
Here's what I think would happen. My colleagues don't have RDi installed,
or if they do, it's WDSC 5.0. Which they tried for ten minutes. Once.
1) Schedule the time for the PC to be available for an hour
2) I install RDi + fixpack
3) I configure RDi; connexion, filter, not much
4) Claudia comes back from lunch and tries SEU (should I break PDM too?)
5) Bad words because SEU is broken. Switches to RDi window (which I've
cleverly left open)
6) My phone rings. How do I edit a member, I just want to edit a member I
don't want all this drill down crap, I just want to... Oh, Ctrl-Alt-Q, OK
7) My phone rings. I want to copy a line, all I want to do is copy a line.
Why do I have to backtab a hundred times to get to the sequence number? No,
I don't want to use a mouse, I never used a mouse before why should I use a
mouse now? Alt-L? How many special key combinations do I need to remember?
OK I wrote that down, now what? Ctrl-C? Oh brother, like Word? Why can't
I just use Word it'll be easier than all this. OK.
8) My phone rings. I have all these sqiggly lines all over everything, how
do I get rid of that crap? Well of course I'm in the middle of editing, I
am changing the lines and every time I type one character and down arrow all
these pink lines and red squiggles come up. Why can't it wait until I hit
enter like it always did? Do you know how slow it's going to be to change
one entire line and the go to the next, and the next? If I survive the
epilepsy this thing is giving me.
9) My phone rings. All I want to do is compile this. There are a pile of
useless icons, I click Compile and I get a dropdown which gives me a
dropdown and I have to choose one of what 10 options? This is nuts why
can't I just compile? Ctrl-Shift-C? OK
10) My phone rings. How do I test my program now that it's compiled.
At least I think it's compiled. How do I see the spooled file? Green
screen? All this crap so I can go use a green screen? Host connection
emulator? Who called it that? Right click on what now? Forget this, I'll
start Client Access.
My descent into Dante's First Circle of Hell has begun, and so passes the
first hour. Of the rest of my life.
This hopefully entertaining tale is not entirely a figment of my slightly
eccentric imagination. To this day, years later, I am still the subject of
scorn as That Weirdo who claimed WDSC is better than SEU, haha what a freak.
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--buck
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