Aaron
IBM use the term "System i5" as well as "eServer i5" so you're fine using
System i5 as being synonymous with all of the other names.
However, I tend to do the opposite and use AS/400 in the text and declare
that as being synonymous with iSeries, System i5, etc. The reasons?
1) Most of my audience (users) think in terms of AS/400,
2) I think of it as being the AS/400 family and in the same way that a
family name might change through marriage (e.g. become hyphenated) it is
still part of the original family.
3) I'm getting on a bit and probably stuck in my ways... ;-)
Jonathan
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Subject: RE: I'm about to give up on "System i"
I am also in the middle of writing some documentation and I have started to
simply use "System i5" as a way to describe the new name. At the beginning
of the documentation I declare "System i5" to be synonymous with iSeries and
AS/400 for the sake of the text. I chose to add the "5" because having a
lower-case "i" in the middle of a sentence causes my mind to grind a little
when reading that portion.
Am I incorrect in saying "System i5"? Am I referring to anything in
actuality?, being that I am not really specifying the OS (i.e. System i5OS)
nor am I just specifying the hardware exclusively (i.e. System i).
Thoughts? Opinions?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: I'm about to give up on "System i"
Adding it to auto-correct is the way to go. Whether you use a shortcut like
Joe's sysi or add the entire thing. Personally I do the entire thing so I
don't have to think about the shortcuts I've added.
Steve, I used autocorrect for iSeries as well so it would keep the "correct"
case.
And I do generally distinguish between System i the platform and i5/OS the
operating system. What sucks is that I have a System i and an iSeries so I
have to choose my terms based on which of our systems I'm referring to. But
as noted it is oftentimes lost on the audience who still calls it the 400
and makes no distinction between platform & OS.
Sometimes it's simply easier to say "midrange". (Please don't bother to say
that an iSeries is a System i or vice versa. What we bought was an iSeries.
What we later bought was a System i. Unless IBM is going to come out &
replace the iSeries badge with a System i badge and offer to update our
fixed asset system it stays what it was when we bought it.)
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John A. Jones, CISSP
Senior Analyst, Global Information Security Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
tel: +1-630-455-2787 fax: +1-312-601-1782 john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx
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