Re: Alternate to iSeries

Baby 400 and ASNA have most API's covered from what I remember, there were very 
few that were not supported.


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Subject: RE: Alternate to iSeries


> Which also begs the questions:
> API's?
> CL?
> Possible rewrite of commands like:  SNDDST, RUNQRY, etc
> And I've got a few operations I'd wonder about in RPG that I am loathe to 
> bring up because I wouldn't want anyone not to use them in case their boss 
> goes off the deep end too and they have to worry about portability - 
> especially since I don't know if they are even a valid concern.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> There are other RPG platforms...I've written on most of them, but I
> don't know of one that supports RPG/IV and especially not ILE. You
> might try a PC platform, like ASNA or something. Maybe VisualAge RPG on
> an Intel server with DB2?
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Alternate to iSeries
> > From: "Chris Bipes" <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, December 16, 2004 2:49 pm
> > To: "'midrange-l'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > 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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