Re: iSeries Misconceptions

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif

Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> From: <jon.paris@e400.com>
>
> > >> if so, then the company that Rob was dealing with is correct: RPG is
> > just for legacy.
> >
> > I've come upon a number of new users recently.  Many (but not all) are
> > former mainframe shops moving to the 400 and (for the most part) converting
> > to use RPG because the new packages they have purchased run in RPG and they
> > don't want to maintain both COBOL and RPG.
>
> from Rob's posting:
>
>    * the platform/language environment currently persists only because of a
> large
>      body of existing legacy code.
>    * the role of RPG programmers is widely being reduced to that of system
>      maintenance
>

I didn't give my response to the above two points in my original post.  It was -

"I can only say that this is total nonsense" and gave my reasons.

The posts in this thread do not seem to contradict this.

Their criticism was not of my product but of the platform on which it runs.  I
was demonstrating, amongst other things, the display of multiple images,
retrieved from multiple servers and scaled to a uniform size, on a single 
browser
screen, but it didn't seem to occur to them that there might be a conflict
between this capability of the iSeries that I was demonstrating using RPG and
their own views about the limited capabilities of the iSeries and RPG.  Of
course, they didn't express these views whilst I was there.

Best wishes

Rob
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