• Subject: Re: PC Front-ends to AS/400 data
  • From: nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 20:09:44 -0500
  • Organization: Data Design Inc. http://www.datadesigninc.com

> Carl, if IBM has a technical weakness in my opinion it is that their idea
> of "easy install" is sadistically warped.  It is easy, yes, but it took me
> several weeks off and on of asking questions, waiting for answers, reading
> and re-reading instructions, and trial and error to get the thing working.

i would agree.  i couldn't find anything in the softcopy manuals that
told you step by step what to do to get it going.  i spend hours trying
to figure out why the strcode kept giving errors, then finally found on
dejanews that you needed to start the tcp/ip job on the p/c first.  

sigh...

nj
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