RE: Why is the iSeries so slow-New generation in IT

--- Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is pure unadulterated crap.  The reason the
> users need to
> manipulate their data is because we the programmers
> can't be bothered to
> do it.  We've all gotten fat and lazy and told the
> users to use SQL and
> leave us alone.  And boy are we sowing what we reap.
>  And then we
> complain about how there's no business!  And what
> kills me is that some
> of the biggest complainers are the ones who want a
> pushbutton WYSIWYG
> interface to develop applications without having to
> actually WRITE ANY
Ø       CODE.

Remember the Movie, ?Invasion of the Body Snatchers?? 
I believe that after Y2K, partly due to the new
demands in IT, the industry started trying to do away
with the Skilled iSeries & Mainframe Application
developers, consultants & analysts..  <smile>) ? and
replaced them with the newer, (cheaper) generation of
PC programmers.  

This is only natural because many of the skilled
(iSeries & Mainframe) developers have not kept up with
the newer technology, and management had little choice
but to call on the PC Hackers (boy am I going to get
some responses from this <HA>)  to get the job done. 
And that they did.  We?re reaping the results of this
via Server Farms, Unstructured systems & applications
due to lack of Industry experience, lack of Design
experience & even lack of understanding Relational
databases, etc.  Just look at the many web-sites that
are out there.  Most have been written by
inexperienced developers that does not understand
application design.  I didn?t until I had many years
under my belt.

I believe this is why we?re getting so much flack
about PC Performance versus iSeries, etc.  The new
generation has NOT grown up with little or no system
down time, doing upgrades or bringing down the system
or network after hours instead of during business
hours.    This day and age, rebooting a PC is just a
necessary sometimes daily activity, bringing down a
network in the middle of the day is not
?out-of-the-question??.on and on?.

I posted a problem situation a several days ago
complaining about IBM & others teaching the benefits
of front-ending the iSeries with non-iSeries platforms
to help with security (somewhat like a Lightening Rod,
I guess, <grin>).  There were several books mentioned
as being good books to learn about security.  What I
noticed is that the books are written by non-iSeries
professionals, that probably don?t know what an
iSeries is.  Of course I believe that Security is just
as important for iSeries as any other platform, but I
bet that some of the problems that are addressed by
many of the non-iSeries authors are perhaps
more-necessary for the non-iSeries setup.

My main reason for writing this post is not to put
down the PC developer, but to address Joe?s statement
about iSeries Developers being lazy and not keeping up
with technology as they should.  I believe that if the
iSeries and Mainframe developers can get off their
duff and begin learning and understanding, Web, Gui,
Object oriented analysis & design (OOA&D), UML,
XML....  then with our past development & business
experience, we could really be accomplishing much more
in the industry. 

Don McIntyre








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