RE: Alternate to iSeries

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe you could port your apps to an HP3000.


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:15 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Alternate to iSeries


Thanks for the link.  I will let everyone know how my project works out. 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Tykodi
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Alternate to iSeries

Hi Chris,

I think you are quite lucky to work at a company that
has the resources available to provide your customers
with reliable disaster recovery options.

It could be that porting your application to a
different server environment might help to illuminate
i5 - iSeries benefits that customers hadn't previously
considered.

I found a product via google search that claims to
allow iSeries applications to be converted into
compatible formats for other server environments
including AIX. Since there is already a version of DB2
for AIX, the RPG application conversion is probably
your biggest challenge in considering a port from
RPGLE to a language available with AIX.

http://www.pks.de/products/iSeries/migration_tools_400.htm

Good luck with the project. I hope we never see the i5
- iSeries operating system compromised in the manner
outlined by your company's owner though.