Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

["Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>]

Depends on what you mean by RPGII  (no RPGIII enhancements ?).
There was only 1 RPG compiler.   No OCL.
Most RPG incompatibilties were in the H and F specs.

There was a System/3 support library QS3E, but IIRC, nothing for the S/34

It was the lack of support for the S/34 and S/36 that lead to the AS/400


Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:05 AM
Subject: RE: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul


> The S/38 could run RPGII programs.  I am not sure about the s/38 running
> ocl, but the system was designed to run s/32 and s/34 applications.  It is
> just that the s/38 was so much more expensive than the s/34 that it made
no
> sense to migrate a s/34 application to the s/38.    The 400 was really
just
> the s/38 in new hardware.
>
> -Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
>
> More than you can imagine. Since there was far more S/36
> installed than S/38(50 to 1, maybe much higher), you gotta
> imagine many of those folks never bothered to convert to
> "native".
>
> I have several customers who never bothered and never asked
> to be converted once they saw that the 400 could handle
> their software "as is".
>
>   Many have converted over the years, but some still run a few
> applications just as they were on the S/36. The S/36 customers
> are the reason the 400 exists today in my opinion.
>
> I don't believe "anybody" including IBM, has any idea how
> much S/36 code still runs. Remember the S/36 was wildly
> popular in other countries other than the USA.
>
> Of course IBM also didn't think many people were using
> OV/400.
>
> Shields, Ken wrote:
>
>
> That's another reason why IBM, rushed to put the Sys/36 out in the market.
> The S/36 was so popular, that even to-day, on the current release of
OS400,
> the Sys 36 Environment is still supported.
>
> I'm very curious to know just how many companies are still using the
> S36 Environment.
>
>
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