Re: iSeries - just a unix wanna be

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, hence our much-bemoaned dilemma, IBM doesn't seem to know how to - or
want to - present the 400/iSeries with its distinctiveness.

It's like a lot of the education offerings you see. Printing classes APF
(or AFP?) are available but only for mainframes. May have changed since
last I looked.

At 10:57 AM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:


> >No matter all the renaming, iSeries DB2 is not the same as the other
> >platforms. For good or ill, Rochester has gone its own way here.
>
> >That is not to say that there are not attempts to share knowledge - there
> >are. But it's not surprising that these classes don't mention iSeries in
>an
> >obvious way, as it's a different animal.   Vernon Hamberg
>
>
>
>That may be true, but the outside world who is reading this site doesn't
>know that.
>They go away thinking (if they scrolled down that far to see it) that it
>may be some data base thing that runs on the iSeries that may be somehow
>related to DB2
>
>
>
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