RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

["McCallion, Martin" <martin.mccallion@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Cozzi wrote:

> Which goes to show you, even after a decade of GUI-based RPG editors
> such as CODE/400 and CodeStudio being available, often for free or
> nearly free, there is still no compelling incentive to leave the
> high-speed keypunching enablement that SEU provides. And that's a darn
> shame. :(

Personally, I'd love to use a good PC-based RPG editor.  I tried Code
Studio for a while, when it was in beta, and there was no way I'd ever
have got my employers to pay for it.  Then when CODE/400 was being
touted on these lists, I tried to find and download a trial version.  I
don't remember the details, but I either couldn't find the download on
IBM's site, or it wouldn't install when I got it.  I think the former.

Now that I have access to a machine at V5R1, I find that, somewhere
under /QIBM. there is a whole directory tree where CODE/400 and the
other PC-based tools should be -- without a single file in them.  All I
want is a setup.exe, y'know?  But when I went looking for installation
instructions in the InfoCenter or elsewhere, all I could find was "put
the WebSphere Development Tools CD in your PC's drive..."

Not that I can't go to our Ops department and get the CD, but should
_every developer_ have to do that?  If they even know about the tools in
the first place?

Personally, I don't do much RPG these days, being more involved in Java;
but if the tools aren't easy to find and install, people aren't going to
be encouraged to use them.

Make them easy to get, and people will use them.

Cheers,

Martin.

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