Re: last OS400 ver for M36?

> It takes time and money just to migrate to 36E!

There is also paranoia
1. IBM killed real 36 for some reason.
2. IBM pushed A/36 customers to AS/400 supporting M36 for some reason.
3. IBM killed M36 for some reason from all versions of AS/400.
4. How long do we have before IBM kills 36E for some reason?
5. 36E does not support as much 36 stuff as M36 does.
6. How long before IBM takes other stuff away from 36?
7. Whatever we convert to ... how long before IBM kills that?
8. How bad is it anyway to stay on a version of OS/400 unsupported any more 
by IBM, in the post-Y2K times?

At Central, what used to be M36 is now in the MS world, for several reasons, 
but that stuff would be still on M36 if IBM had not killed it.

Over the years, we saw this coming & there were lots of arguements.
I proposed various new reports on OS/400 with most of the same data derived 
from BPCS but in the format of the M36 program reports.
I proposed various conversion algorithms to get the M36 data to 400 files.
There were tons of other things management wanted me to spend my time on 
instead.
The clock is ticking & I regularly reminded all & sundry that M36 departure 
imminent.
Several people said we not need this anymore, with all the great new stuff we 
have in BPCS/400.
Several people said this obviously belongs on a PC spread sheet - I said that 
multiple people need to access it & where do you put it so that it can be 
accessed when the normal people who manage it are busy with other stuff on 
their PCs.

It is now stored in a company folder on a shared server that any PC user on 
the company MS intranet can get into.

Several people have complained to me that any PC user can accidentally mess 
it up & I told them they talking to the wrong person - that goes with the MS 
territory - if you want security that lets anyone read the data but only 
selected individuals update it, then use IBM 400, but we did not go with IBM 
400 because as you recall the decision was that we did not need the M36 stuff 
anymore, so Al Mac was not to convert it to the 400.  And furthermore, guess 
what other stuff on the PC network is fragile by MS definition.

It made my day when our PC Guru switched from MS SQL to IBM SQL because MS 
was so user hostile & cumbersome to do the stuff that IBM was so simple & 
easy to get the job done.  In his words.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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