Insider
Weekly,
August 2004
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Title Author Topics Vendor |
Customers continue to implement third-party solutions Still, iSeries users are intimidated by the WebSphere tooling and are looking to vendors for answers. “I have WebSphere, but it is vastly more complicated than what my people are ready for. I have worked with WebSphere, but it was complex to set up, then once I had it going, it didn’t thrill me. I just gave up on it,” says Gerald Hammack, (a Profound Logic RPG Smart Pages customer) director of the technical services division, Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office, New Orleans, LA. He continues, “Profound Logic’s tool is simple to use and straightforward. The Integrated Development Environment is easy to work with, and I don’t have to hunt for error messages to find out what’s wrong. This means that my guys are busy doing the job that I hired them to do, instead of having to learn HTML and Java just to find out where the problems are.” Profound Logic Software’s RPG Smart Pages looks at a shop’s RPG code and builds applications around it utilizing wizards (which create the application so that the developer does not have to do any of the coding). “With over 200 templates for the wizards to draw from, applications can be created within minutes of a short download and install time,” says Alex Roytman, chief technical officer, Profound Logic Software Inc., Dayton, OH. “RPG programmers will want to have a very general understanding of Web development and HTML, but these skills are not necessary for success,” he continues. Profound Logic offers training courses at an additional cost, but RPG programmers can learn the tool from scratch within one week, according to Roytman. For the full length article go to http://www.iseries400experts.com/aiw/08-0904.jsp |