Re: Is anyone using ILE? -- MIDRANGE-L

> >The idiosyncracies of using named activation groups when you have
> >a mixture of OPM and ILE in the same stack,  And the "Neat" things
> >that the system does with error control logic under that scenerio
> >has kept (I believe) alot of people from experimenting or mixing their apps.

As Dennis Miller is famous for saying, "I don't want to go off on a
rant, but...."

As the founder and director of a software development house, this type
of 'transitional' behavior will prevent the incremental implementation
of a full blown integrated suite of applications.

For a company to capitalize on the benefits of ILE, a ground up..from
scratch..approach must be taken.  It's less costly than the constant
reworking of the go-betweens for each incremental step.  The larger
software houses may invest in total rewrite of their applications, or a
user may fund the development of a pure ILE stand-alone application, but
for the majority of AS/400 shops (mid-size manufacturing) it's a hard
sell to write 'service' programs which perform less than 10% of the
functions of any suite of applications and cope with inconsistant
behavior.

Utilty programs are the most likely first candidate. (ie: automated data
retrieval and import)

A more likely occurance would be that a UNIX based C application will be
ported to the AS/400 backed with enough marketing dollars to impact new
installations that in 5 years we all will be faced with at least a few
sites that are pure ILE shops.  The role that RPGIV will play in this
scenerio will depend largely on the political climit of the shop and the
technical backgrounds of the decision makers.  (We're betting on C and
JAVA)

Is it a good thing? Let's see. We burned quite a few profit sharing
dollars on the promise of SAA. For now our current install base could
care less about the technical aspects of a given solution so long as the
performance and price are up to expectations.

Someone else on this thread noted that most users are content to be one
step back from the bleeding edge and are taking a let's wait and see
what shakes out attitude. Our sites feel the same.

Mixing S/38 or S/36 functions with native was easier to deal with than
OPM/ILE.

But that's just my opinion.....

Oh, I forgot the original question for a moment....No.
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