From: Kevin Powick > Many such people are respectful. They're not innately evil or > malicious, perhaps just lazy. However, the appearance of > near zero effort by the OP begets near zero effort.
Granted, and I usually respond to open questions with a request for more info unless we smell a troll. Sometimes people don't know how to frame a question for a platform until they've had more experience. The question "how do I create a database" is Really almost as fundamental as you get. That IS the starting point from which one can then respond with "I tried this and that after I created the database". But tone is important here too - rather than someone asking if the OP had access to documentation (which prior to v5 has been useless and I haven't seen v5 docs yet), the request was simply ignored, and now we're seeing it was ignored intentionally. That is what I'm taking issue with here. If nothing else, I'd wonder if jBase Marketing or Sales would have contacted this person to see if they had a reseller who was inattentive. > I note that for all you typed about how the lack of a helpful > response is a travesty, you still haven't answered the OP's > question either. Personally I'm not qualified. While my appreciation for the platform is always high, I've stopped using jBase for a number of reasons. So I couldn't test whatever info I provide. I tend to approach jBase using the "crutch" of structuring an environment like a Pick platform, but I know that's not ideal. If I suggest MV.CREATE.ACCOUNT, I'm sure there would be a flurry of dissent (that might have been a better way to start the discussion, oh well). I was hoping to see someone point to some good fundamentals info with examples for various kinds of environments configured with a variety of environment variables. I doubt that sort of information/tutorial exists, though 8 years ago I was assured that documentation like that was being written. (Perhaps it's in v5?) Anything I'd suggest about JEDIFILENAME_SYSTEM, JBCRELEASEDIR, and JEDIFILENAME_MD would probably be dismissed as incomplete or inaccurate. I'm open to criticism but why open with bad info that needs to be corrected. So I opted to wait for someone to post something helpful ... and that didn't happen. > You just told him to go ask it somewhere else. Yeah, when it seemed evident that he wasn't going to get a response here. I told him where to fish rather than tossing him a fish. Best, T -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
