RE: Replacing IIS with iSeries 400

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > But I thought you hadn't used LANSA at all? to be honest I haven't tried
> > BOMs or MRP in LANSA either so I can't comment on those but we have
> > developed some pretty complex web based systems, standalone and with and
> > full legacy system integration.
>
> I haven't.  Just wondering if anybody has.  Obviously you
> haven't.  And you
> don't write low-level stuff, either.  What do you write?

Given our miscommunications thus faer, I thought I should clarify this
statement.  "Obviously you haven't" meant you haven't written an MRP gen, as
you stated.  And you've also said you don't write middleware.  I don't know
if anybody has written complex business logic in LANSA, and that's what I
was asking.  I didn't mean to imply you've never written anything at all in
LANSA, simply that I don't see any evidence of using LANSA for industrial
strength programming.

In fact, it would be nice if LANSA (or anybody) were capable of a higher
level of abstraction of programming - I've always hoped someone would get to
the next level of application generation.  AS/SET certainly never made it,
although their data modeling had promise.  Those of us who called it @RPG
did so for a reason - it really was little more than RPG with aome
additional built-in features.  And the generated code was horrendous (though
in truth not as bad as some others).

I've spent the last decade or so concentrating on the UI side of things, and
PSC400 is the result of that.  It's very good at making existing code UI
independent, but it's not designed to actually create new code.  Perhaps
it's time to begin rethinking the application development side of the coin.

Anyway, thanks for the interaction.  It's been enlightening.