Re: What counts as technically s

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>Al Barsa has kindly drawn our attention to the V5R1 ability
>to handle 250 entries in the library list.  The idea that any
>one should actually require the current maximum number of 25
>horrifies me - I find 4 user libraries adequate for most
>purposes.  As for 250, I am, for once in my life, speechless!

Apparently, you have never worked on a system running JBA.  Three libraries
(data files, source, program objects) per module (A/R, A/P, inventory, Sales
Order Entry, etc. ad infinitum), plus a few libraries in the system library
list, if I remember correctly.  I could see a lot of JBA shops jumping on the
250-library list bandwagon.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
John


> My guiding principles are;
>
> Simple Engineering is Great Engineering
> KISS
> Elegance in Simplicity
>
> Einstein said(I believe)
> "To make something as simple as possible,   But no simpler"
>
> However like beauty,   the definition of the above in any particular
> implementation is in the eye of the beholder.

I totally agree.

I have always gone for the KISS principle.  The simpler it is the quicker it
 is
to develop, the cheaper it is to develop, the easier it is to maintain, the
better it will perform and the likelihood is that it will be more stable.

Al Barsa has kindly drawn our attention to the V5R1 ability to handle 250
 entries
in the library list.  The idea that any one should actually require the
 current
maximum number of 25 horrifies me - I find 4 user libraries adequate for most
purposes.  As for 250, I am, for once in my life, speechless!

Best wishes

Rob
________________________________________________________

Erros plc

44 (0) 1844 239 339

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