Re: The law of unintended consequences -- MIDRANGE-L

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@relational-data.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: The law of unintended consequences


> From: "Reeve Fritchman" <reeve@ltl400.com>
> > Wouldn't it be amusing if IBM really did have a warm spot
> > in its cold corporate heart for the iSeries, only to see the product
> > base erode as applications being migrated out of 5250 mode ended
> > up running in non-iSeries environments?
>
> Someday, the user interface may be HTML, instead of 5250 based.  But which
> applications would move?  It's pretty hard to build an iSeries application
> that doesn't  use at least some OS/400 specific features.  Data queues,
> message queues, output queues, spool files, CL modules & commands, system
> APIs, record level database access, security objects, RPG, backup &
restore
> procedures, etc.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com


I noticed an ad for a company that has a pc-based rpg compiler that also
supports dds, and I don't know what else. Anyone have any experience with
them?

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