RE: iSeries Misconceptions

We have a new trucking/transportation customer here in NJ.  They moved from 
their "Legacy" Unix system, written mostly with a
database/language called Unidata, to an AS/400.

We wrote our trucking and transporation system from the ground up in Lansa.

The As/400 is the database server, using all RPG code.  The clients are 
Windows.  They use Lansa for the web to extend their data to
their IIS server.

We could have run our database code on Unix/Oracle, but, they heard good things 
about the As/400's reliability, combined with our
bias for the 400, and they bought one.  We support 200+ users on a 270 with 950 
CPW.  They bought the smallest interactive feature
to support some green screen app's we still haven't rewritten.

Their unix box crashed from time to time, so they have a "daily" file for 
invoices (pro's), and a  live file.  When they are all
done with their daily work, they post it to the live file.  The reason for this 
is that if/when the unix box crashed, they wouldn't
have to wait for the corrupted database in the live file to be rebuilt so they 
could continue adding records.

It was funny trying to convince them that we didn't need that on the As/400.  I 
almost wanted to agree and do it just in case I was
wrong someday.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Rob Dixon
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:23 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: iSeries Misconceptions
>
>
> David
>
> David Gibbs wrote:
>
> > At 05:37 PM 8/5/2001, you wrote:
> > > > How many AS400 end-users have bought a system to develop a brand new
> > > > application on?
> > >if so, then the company that Rob was dealing with is correct: RPG is
> > >just for legacy.
> >
> > I disagree ... I think a better question would be "How many AS400's have
> > been acquired for NEW installation of software".   A software package isn't
> > legacy the day you purchase it.
>
> I agree with you, so if anyone knows of any such new iSeries installations, 
>then
> please post them (I don't necessarily need to know their names).
>
> In addition, since I imagine that, by legacy systems, they mean 5250, which of
> you is developing (or knows of other companies developing) on the iSeries
> client/server (thick or thin) or using Java or CGI or VRPG etc., to develop
> non-5250 interfaces?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Rob
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