RE: DBU Users

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have both EZVIEW and DBU.  I use EZVIEW, probably because I learned how
to use it first.  I can't say I'm extatically happy with it, but it seems to
work ok except for a little problem with logical files that rename fields.  

We have some quasi-religious supporters of both. 

If IBM were like Microsoft, they'd add file editor functionality to PDM. <g>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bale [mailto:dbale@genfast.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 1:08 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: DBU Users
> 
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> Scott,
> 
> You are not alone in getting no or little response from 
> ProData on bugs.  It
> appears that ProData is fast becoming the Microsoft of the 
> AS/400 utility world.
> 
> - Dan Bale
> 
> >>We have been using DBU for quite a while now.  I was wondering if
> others have also gotten bad support from ProData like we have.
> 
> Two release ago (4.0), we sent ProData a list of problems with DBU.
> Things like looping, hard crashes, and quirks (about 19 things).
> When we got the next release (4.1) we checked the list of stuff again.
> Only about 25% of the things were fixed and a few more were added to
> the list. The list went down to about 15 items and sent to ProData.
> We are now on version 5.0, and some of these problems STILL exist.
> I have not sent them the new list yet because I am still working on
> testing the thing on the previous list and adding things to 
> the new list.
> It seems to us that ProData does not know how to listen to the
> problems of their customers.  Some time next year, I will be 
> looking into
> the possibility of replacing DBU with something else.  <soapbox off>
> <<
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