RE: What is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)

I think the short answer is that there are certain models (like the 520
and 590) that are i5's. Other boxes are iSeries' and other boxes are
AS/400's. So that designation depends on the model.

The other question is the interesting one. In the world of
consolidation, all those things you mention are running on the i5 (or
iSeries or AS/400). The fact that they're using a different
'translator' (PASE) or a different processor (IXS) or a different OS
(AIX/Linux) doesn't matter - it's still running on the i5. That's what
makes this system unique.

And I can see the difference between running something natively or not.
Native to me is running the executable directly under a supported OS
(OS/400, AIX, Linux), so running something that requires PASE isn't
native. Of course, that doesn't really matter - it's just another
method of getting code  to execute.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: What is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)
> From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, March 04, 2005 11:52 am
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> OK, this may sound like a stupid question, but what is an i5 (or iSeries
> or AS/400)? I don't want the answer "It's the new iSeries", I mean what
> do you consider to be the i5? When you're running on an i5, what are you
> doing? 
>  
> For example, I was reading iSeries magazine (I think that was it)
> recently, and someone announced the availability of a Citrix Metaframe
> component for the i5. "Interesting" I thought, then I read the fine
> print, "only available on i5's with the IXS adapter" so actually, it's a
> Windows app, running on a blade in the back of an i5. Is the i5 now a
> blade server?
>  
> Elsewhere (on this list) I read a post about someone having a really bad
> week. Part of the bad week involved having to reboot the Domino Sametime
> server and a Linux partition. So is the i5, now just a piece of hardware
> on which we run some not-so-stable operating systems?
>  
> I visited a customer a couple of weeks ago that swore up and down that
> he was running WebSphere "on the iSeries". Well, I looked high and low
> and I couldn't find it. Finally tracked it down to WebSphere on W2K,
> running on an IXS, again is that "on the iSeries"?
>  
> I've also seen posts about people wondering if there are "native" ports
> of PHP, even though it's available in PASE. So is PASE not "native". Is
> something that runs on PASE not "native" to the machine? DNS is in
> there. So's DHCP. People say their i5 does DNS, don't they?
>  
> I myself got caught up in this, I'm doing a number of user group
> presentations next week on HTML and ASP.NET, and someone asked me if
> they could promote the meetings by saying that I'd look at running .NET
> _on_ the i5. My quick response was, "no, you can't do that." but now I'm
> wondering, can I? If it's on an IXS in the back of the i5 can I claim
> it's on an i5? 
>  
> So, what is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)? What does it mean to you? 
>  
> I'll tell you my answer. An i5 runs OS/400. If it runs in OS/400
> (including QSHELL and PASE) then it's running "on" an i5. AIX and Linux
> partitions don't count for me, I might as well do them on a pSeries. And
> the IXS, well hell, I sure don't consider the i5 to be a big blade
> server, so anything running on an IXS isn't running "on" an i5 as far as
> I'm concerned. 
>  
> What do others think?
>  
> -Walden
> 
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