PASE was: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

PASE sucks!  IBM sticks no support into it and have crippled it up like a 
possum on a freeway.

We have an ancient version of TSM back when it was called ADSM.  It was 
written for native OS/400 and it still runs fine on V5R3.  However we have 
a newer version of TSM (not the newest, but the latest supported on i5/os) 
and it constantly has issues with V5R3.  The newer version was written for 
PASE.

I think we can sum it done to Debbie Fields comment (formerly of Mrs. 
Fields cookies):  "Good enough, never is."  IBM now migrates packages over 
from aix and Linux to PASE under i5/os.  No attempts at enhancing the 
performance are completed.  No attempts at making it more robust are 
completed.  But to IBM it's good enough.  It will let the customer limp 
along on i5/os until IBM converts them to Linux or aix.  Can you imagine 
the horse pucky we'd have now if Domino was just being converted to i5/os? 
 They'd just get it to run under PASE and consider that good enough. Thank 
heavens Domino was converted before PASE became the altar that it is now. 
Now it's robust.  Heck, the other platforms learned a lot from the i5 
migration and put those changes into their platforms in R7 to get better 
performance.

And Domino sold a LOT of 400's.

Rob Berendt