Re: Long time RPGer needs help getting started in new methods

[Gilbert Noetzel <gilbertn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. B. -

I share the similar experience as you are going through.

From John & Susan point of view, I did chat with them at the IBM 
Technical Conference in Pre-New Orleans  and they recommend PC with 1gb 
or more to run the RSE apps.  More the better!

As for setting up iSeries Access for Web, I attended the conference for 
that..and it was WAY over my head.  Especially meeting the necessary 
hardware requirements to run the apps on the AS/400 system...our current 
system hardware is not capable to run it efficiently.  But I do 
recommend you continue on your quest to learn and play with it on your 
system.

gil




B Hamren wrote:

> I have been searching many of these posts looking for a basic 1,2,3 on getting started in something 
> other than traditional "AS/400" ways of doing things. Notice I did not say iSeries or 
> "System i" since all the systems I have ever worked on are truly only AS/400 in nature. I 
> have used SEU from S/34 to S/36 to S/38 to AS/400. Once I went to Common and saw Paul Conte's demo 
> on FlexEdit and convinced our shop to go that route. That meant buying 5 Intel 486 based PC's 
> @$2500 each, 5 Twinax boards @ $500 each, 5 FlexEdit licences at @500 each, and then we ended up 
> not using it since it did not save the source change dates in the members.
>
> Since I left that job in 1998 I have worked in shops that are primitive. Here 
> are some examples of what I mean:
>  a.. Running ancient packages written in RPG Auto-report or S/36 environment or 
> (currently) a package ported from the S/38 that still uses F1 for exit.
>  b.. No money in the budget for any type of training or Common conferences
>  c.. No desire for any change from the old, stable green screen programs
> Now I am on an 810 running V5R4. I went to a presentation this summer by Gary 
> Konicek of IBM Rochester at our local ASU user group in Columbus, Ohio. He gave 
> out a .pdf file on the software side of V5R4 announcements (a technical 
> overview). I now have time to try some of these things and I want to know where 
> to start.
>
> Here is what I have tried and where it stands:
>
> 1. I followed Jon Paris and Susan Gantner's "A Quick Start to Using RSE" to the 
> point where I installed WDSC on my work PC (even though I don't meet the minimum specs - 
> I am running on an old Compaq with Windows 2000 Professional with only 256Mb of memory). 
> It bogged down my system so much even having it installed I disabled it all. I would try 
> it on my personal laptop which is fairly new and has 1 Gb of memory if I thought it 
> wouldn't bog it down also.
>
> 2. I am trying to figure out how to install iSeries Access for Web. That led me 
> to this newsgroup where I have followed a few threads but have not seen the ABC 
> method I need yet.
>
> Thanks everyone in advance,
>
> Blair Hamren
>