Re: AS400 Library list constraint

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

There are several email packages for the AS/400. Net400 is a partner
company and they sell NetMail*400. In addition to the normal mail
functions the product has a rich set of APIs for mail integration. You
can get more information here:

    http://www.net400.com

Patrick

Rob Dixon wrote:
> 
> Jim
> 
> Neil has to be correct - don't buy it.  I cannot imagine how you could need 12
> additional libraries.
> 
> Why do people make things so unnecessarily complex?
> 
> I learnt yesterday that one of the very well known AS/400 major packages, 
>known
> to many members of this list, has about 3 billion lines of source.  I believed
> the person who told me but it is beyond belief.   Is frailty the square of
> complexity?  There must be some "law" like that.
> 
> I would be interested to know what e-mail packages there are for the AS/400, 
>and
> approximate price ranges. Because of the limitations of PC email packages, I 
>have
> been thinking about using e-mail on the AS/400 and adding the necessary 
>function
> to my Neural Database (which only has 55,000 lines of code).  I suspect that 
>it
> would take less time to develop it myself than to get a package up and 
>running,
> as I doubt that it would require 12 new objects in total and certainly no new
> libraries, never mind 12 new libraries plus their contents.  But I should
> consider all possibilities.
> 
> Rob Dixon
> Erros plc
> 
> Jim Knight wrote:
> 
> > We are looking at installing a mail order package that requires a minimum of
> > 12 libraries in the *LIBL.
> > With our normal test environment, that will take us to over 25 libraries.
> > Has anyone heard if IBM is doing anything to relieve this requirement?
> > Is there a "push/pop" methodology that is better than RTVJOBA of USRLIBL to
> > save the library list and using CHGLIBL to restore it?
> >
> > Jim Knight
> > jknight@rei.com
> >
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