Re: What is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)

my bottom line would be that if a program running in the os400 part of
the system cannot control, access or integrate with the component in
question, then that component is not part of the system.

-Steve


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:52:14 -0500, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, this may sound like a stupid question, but what is an i5 (or iSeries
> or AS/400)? I don't want the answer "It's the new iSeries", I mean what
> do you consider to be the i5? When you're running on an i5, what are you
> doing?
> 
> For example, I was reading iSeries magazine (I think that was it)
> recently, and someone announced the availability of a Citrix Metaframe
> component for the i5. "Interesting" I thought, then I read the fine
> print, "only available on i5's with the IXS adapter" so actually, it's a
> Windows app, running on a blade in the back of an i5. Is the i5 now a
> blade server?
> 
> Elsewhere (on this list) I read a post about someone having a really bad
> week. Part of the bad week involved having to reboot the Domino Sametime
> server and a Linux partition. So is the i5, now just a piece of hardware
> on which we run some not-so-stable operating systems?
> 
> I visited a customer a couple of weeks ago that swore up and down that
> he was running WebSphere "on the iSeries". Well, I looked high and low
> and I couldn't find it. Finally tracked it down to WebSphere on W2K,
> running on an IXS, again is that "on the iSeries"?
> 
> I've also seen posts about people wondering if there are "native" ports
> of PHP, even though it's available in PASE. So is PASE not "native". Is
> something that runs on PASE not "native" to the machine? DNS is in
> there. So's DHCP. People say their i5 does DNS, don't they?
> 
> I myself got caught up in this, I'm doing a number of user group
> presentations next week on HTML and ASP.NET, and someone asked me if
> they could promote the meetings by saying that I'd look at running .NET
> _on_ the i5. My quick response was, "no, you can't do that." but now I'm
> wondering, can I? If it's on an IXS in the back of the i5 can I claim
> it's on an i5?
> 
> So, what is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)? What does it mean to you?
> 
> I'll tell you my answer. An i5 runs OS/400. If it runs in OS/400
> (including QSHELL and PASE) then it's running "on" an i5. AIX and Linux
> partitions don't count for me, I might as well do them on a pSeries. And
> the IXS, well hell, I sure don't consider the i5 to be a big blade
> server, so anything running on an IXS isn't running "on" an i5 as far as
> I'm concerned.
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> -Walden
> 
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