Re: WDSC vs SEU

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> but I think the emulator idea itself is
> outdated.  I'd like to see the day when you can do everything inside the
> IDE and it doesn't just emulate a green screen, it replaces it with an
> entirely new way of doing things, an interactive gui environment that
> resembles green screen about as much as a 747 resembles the Hindenburg,

You already have it.  It's iSeries Navigator.  I disagree with the
fundamental idea that everything should be done inside the IDE... the IDE
should be for development (hence the D in IDE), and management should be
done in a management application like iNav.  For example, you don't
configure your Windows services inside of Visual Studio, and you don't
manage your Unix environment in Netbeans.

IBM wrote iNav a long time ago and we still don't use it.  I doubt that IBM
will be rewriting all of iNav to run inside of WDSC anytime soon, and
frankly I hope they don't waste the time.  I want more development tools,
not a better way to manage an output queue.

Joe