Hello William,
I'm happy you had
no problems installing it. Some of us have experienced it, and finally
gave up. IBM has taken a direction that is pretty risky. They
entered the PC market with products that they aren't finished
developing. They expected the customers to tell them what's wrong with
it and what's missing, but they're missing a point there, they're not asking
the right questions to the right people. (see news400's august article :http://www.as400network.com/resources/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&CO_ContentID=7750).
The point is they
have put CODE/400 on the market before it was finished. They had put
only the tools that everybody need. I've heard it was written in
smalltalk, and that was one of the major cause why it is so slow. But
they will release a new version that is supposed to be faster, and more
reliable. Written in C/C++, it is supposed to be the next step to a
Full windoze interface for AS400 developers. As I'm writing this,
there are no more CODE/400 on my workstation. I had to format my HDD
to completely erase the references to the VARPG's Java toolbox for
as400. Or else I have to set the classpath in each execution of a Java
class to avoid a "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException"
error.
All this to say,
don't despair, there will come a new world of drags, drops and clicks for
the AS400. Will it be for good? who knows?
Pascal Bellerose
Programmeur-analyste / Software developer
pascal.bellerose@progisys.com
PROGISYS inc.
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