Just a small correction, it's TAATOOLS and it is still current. As is
Hawkeye.

On Feb 8, 2:30 pm, "Bob Mgr" wrote:
> I was doing some Google searches for "DBU" to see whatever is around and
> came across an interesting thread from 1999 when someone asked what are the
> must have tools for an AS/400 with a "vanilla" install.
>
> The VAATOOLS app got high marks, as did DBU and Hawkeye, and a lot of system
> management tools were named, too. But of the three I listed, only DBU seems
> to be current.
>
> So what are your must-have tools?
>
> We are currently on v5.2 but will be upgrading our model 810 to the latest
> and greatest later this year.
>
> Thanks!

"Elvis" wrote in message
news:1170970691.118820.70630@j27g2000cwj.googlegro ups.com...
> Just a small correction, it's TAATOOLS and it is still current. As is
> Hawkeye.

Are these the official website URL's for each product?

www.taatool.com
http://www.hawkinfo.com/

Yes.

On Feb 8, 3:55 pm, "Bob Mgr" wrote:
> "Elvis" wrote in message
>
> news:1170970691.118820.70630@j27g2000cwj.googlegro ups.com...
>
> > Just a small correction, it's TAATOOLS and it is still current. As is
> > Hawkeye.
>
> Are these the official website URL's for each product?
>
> www.taatool.comhttp://www.hawkinfo.com/

IMHO, big shop or small shop:

Source/version control--Aldon's A/CMS. SoftLanding's Turnover is it's
biggest competitor.

Hawkeye.

Surveyor/400.

TAATOOLs.

RPG Toolbox (if you have any RPG III code and are moving to RPG IV and/or
ILE.)
(http://www.linomasoftware.com/products/rpgtoolbox)

WDSC (Free if you already have PDM and you do, don't you?) but a few bucks
to get an adequate PC.

Sam

(No affiliation with Linoma--just a satisified customer.)

"Bob Mgr" wrote in message
news:12sn22ep9qps14@news.supernews.com...
>I was doing some Google searches for "DBU" to see whatever is around and
>came across an interesting thread from 1999 when someone asked what are the
>must have tools for an AS/400 with a "vanilla" install.
>
> The VAATOOLS app got high marks, as did DBU and Hawkeye, and a lot of
> system management tools were named, too. But of the three I listed, only
> DBU seems to be current.
>
> So what are your must-have tools?
>
> We are currently on v5.2 but will be upgrading our model 810 to the latest
> and greatest later this year.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

On Feb 8, 3:30 pm, "Bob Mgr" wrote:
> I was doing some Google searches for "DBU" to see whatever is around and
> came across an interesting thread from 1999 when someone asked what are the
> must have tools for an AS/400 with a "vanilla" install.
>
> The VAATOOLS app got high marks, as did DBU and Hawkeye, and a lot of system
> management tools were named, too. But of the three I listed, only DBU seems
> to be current.
>
> So what are your must-have tools?
>
> We are currently on v5.2 but will be upgrading our model 810 to the latest
> and greatest later this year.
>
> Thanks!

i use something called RPGAlive that does on screen source
indentation, really slick if you have programs with lots of nested
loops and if statements.

The ones I use the most

WSDc

DBU

FROG

Only three tools I use:

1) DBU - absolutely, can not do my work without it.
2) DBU - for many more reasons not already mentioned
3) Hammer - To fix the users, permanently

Good Luck
Bill

"Bob Mgr" wrote in message
news:12sn22ep9qps14@news.supernews.com...
>I was doing some Google searches for "DBU" to see whatever is around and
>came across an interesting thread from 1999 when someone asked what are the
>must have tools for an AS/400 with a "vanilla" install.
>
> The VAATOOLS app got high marks, as did DBU and Hawkeye, and a lot of
> system management tools were named, too. But of the three I listed, only
> DBU seems to be current.
>
> So what are your must-have tools?
>
> We are currently on v5.2 but will be upgrading our model 810 to the latest
> and greatest later this year.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

I use the TN5250j emulator a lot. I like the fact that it has tabs
like FireFox.

http://tn5250j.sourceforge.net/

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

Gotta haves I know I reach for on every system and cringe when they
aren't there.

Brian.

==For $$==
*DBU - file editor, don't forget it also works on DTAARA and JRNRCV
*TAATOOLS - many, many handy bits in there
*HAWKEYE - the cross reference master

==For $0==
*WRKDBF - this was a free DBU replacement by Bill Reger, not available
anymore sadly
*XMLPREVIEW - http://home.alltel.net/craigru/jcrcmd2.html - by Craig
Rutledge, great for moving code between systems via XML file, also
many other 400 tools use this
*DBG400 - http://www.dbg400.net - by Martin Rowe, used to streamline
copying subsets of production files to test environments.
**also contains the great utility WRKUSROUTQ which is everything I
wanted WRKOUTQ to be
*ISTKT - http://iseries-toolkit.sourceforge.net/ - an open source
project, it is TAATOOLS-like.
**CPYMSGD for copying message descriptions between MSGF how I found
this originally.


On Feb 8, 3:30 pm, "Bob Mgr" wrote:
> I was doing some Google searches for "DBU" to see whatever is around and
> came across an interesting thread from 1999 when someone asked what are the
> must have tools for an AS/400 with a "vanilla" install.
>
> The VAATOOLS app got high marks, as did DBU and Hawkeye, and a lot of system
> management tools were named, too. But of the three I listed, only DBU seems
> to be current.
>
> So what are your must-have tools?
>
> We are currently on v5.2 but will be upgrading our model 810 to the latest
> and greatest later this year.
>
> Thanks!