Re: Alternate to iSeries

I seriously suggest you look for a different job.  They will be hauling 
this guy off to the loony bin soon after he goes on the rooftop and starts 
shooting at the crows thinking they are "black helicopters".  They are 
much more likely to bring down the other platforms with virus and DOS 
attacks.

But if you want to play along until you find that new job then you could 
try converting to VARPG.  I hear tell that it can even generate JAVA code 
from the RPG.

There are other products, like baby/400
http://www.calsw.com/calsw/

HP had a product at one time to port S/36 over to their HP/3000 Unix. That 
is the one reason that IBM ran a full page ad for the iSeries when HP/3000 
went casters up.

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Alternate to iSeries






The owner of CrossCheck has asked me to find an alternate platform to run
our authorization system on.  It is an in-house grown RPGLE application.
Does IBM offer an RPGLE compiler for their pSeries systems?  We will still
have our current iSeries based system but also offer a second system 
running
with a different OS.  The owner feels that if terrorist were to ever hack
iSeries and bring then down world wide, we would still have our secondary
system running.  He does not like any single point of failure, which is 
why
we have two locations across the US.  What other systems can I run DB2 and
RPGLE on?

Ok quit laughing 8-) he is serious.

Christopher K. Bipes 
Manager of Systems Administration
CrossCheck, Inc.

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