RE: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

ROTFLMBO!!! Thanks for that comic relief, Larry. Although I am not sure I'd
call that AS/400 attitude. Dinosaur attitude, head in sand attitude, I
really don't know. I have never been a twinax fan, and SNA? Really? And I
thought the mainframe guys I have to deal with sometimes had cornered the
market on that attitude.

Give me a 3278 anytime.
LE? Who needs LE, I have the COBOL runtimes with the compiler.
I am using SNA over something called TCPIP. Heard of it?
FICON? ESCON is plenty fast enough.
Put that on a 3480 for me.
Can I still use bitmaps in CICS?
What is a GUI?
HMC? Where is the system reset button?

Oh Doctor, I love the comic break. Thanks!!!!

Doug

Doug Fuerst
Principal Consultant
BK Associates
718.921.2620
917.572.7364
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 9:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

Perhaps I need to define "AS/400 Attitude."

1) "You can pry my twinax console from my cold dead fingers."
2) "Call Data Processing and have them run a report, you can key the
numbers from there."
3) "What's TCP/IP useful for? We have SNA."
4) "I use my web browser to access my newsgroups."
5) "Why would I want Free form, it screws up all my left side indicators!"
6) "SEU Forever."
7) "Green Screens will always beat web interfaces."
8) "Mail me my PTFs on a CD, that virtual stuff will never catch on and
IBMs downloads are super slow."
9) "The IFS is worthless, we have folders for that."
10) "Client Access is a pig, and GUI development tools require
fabulously huge PCs and will never pay for themselves."

THAT'S AS/400 attitude. It's OLD. It's STUCK. It's no changes for me.
It's "I've always done it this way." When it shows up at the door, it's
turned away.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis.

On 12/12/2012 9:23 AM, Doug Fuerst wrote:

How sad. Customers that don't want to hire iSeries "attitude." Perhaps the
customers need their "attitude" adjusted. No wonder this business is no

fun

anymore.

Doug

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